Whats to stop a NJ resident from going to NY to purchase a Tesla direct? Is their a a big financial penalty for doing so when registering? What is to stop a grey market of NY residents reselling them to NJ consumers if so? This makes no sense.
Nothing. Just as there's nothing stopping an NJ resident from buying a Tesla on the Internet from her home.
It's just to annoy people who don't know what they want. They can still do test drives in NJ, but can't talk about pricing, options, financing options etc.
> Just as there's nothing stopping an NJ resident from buying a Tesla on the Internet from her home.
And when Tesla creates a Oculus Rift based VR showroom? What if there was a fancy VR showroom in the mall where several different vendors could show there wares - would Tesla be the only company banned? It'd be fun watching that battle.
I was actually planning on setting up a landing page tomorrow to offer Tesla buyers an address (no charge) in an adjacent state to register the vehicle at when they can't purchase directly in their state (TX, NJ, etc).
You would take delivery at that address, and then re-register the vehicle in your home state after the title was in your name.
So Tesla simply can't have a presence in the state? If that's the case, Tesla should be fine with having showrooms in New York, as well as Philadelphia/Levittown/Allentown, PA. That would put the vast majority of NJ residences within a 30-45 minutes drive of a Tesla showroom.
As someone who purchased a car out of state and took it back to NJ the only thing is you have to pay NJ tax on the sale. So no "extra" penalty that I'm aware of unless they are doing that for electric vehicles which would be just downright horrible.
