California new car dealers claim Tesla violates advertising laws [View all]
The trade group for California’s new car dealers wants the state Department of Motor Vehicles to investigate Tesla Motors’ advertising practices, alleging that the upstart automaker is violating various state and federal laws in marketing its electric cars.
The California New Car Dealers Assn. claims that Tesla inflates the savings customers accrue from various federal and state incentives to encourage the purchase of electric cars and from other perquisites, such as a permit to drive solo in most California carpool lanes.
Tesla, a Palo Alto auto company that only makes electric cars, declined to comment on the complaint.
“We would like the DMV to investigate whether Tesla has violated the law,” said Brian Maas, president of the California New Car Dealers Assn. “At the minimum we would hope they would get Tesla to stop issuing advertisements in the form they are currently doing.”
http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-california-dealers-claim-tesla-violations-20130916,0,3708769.story
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