Tesla to drop stores for online sales only

A Tesla store in Santa Monica, Calif. (BLOOMBERG)

By:

ukarkaria@crain.com

March 01, 2019 03:26 AM

Tesla is largely abandoning its long-controversial retail model of factory-owned stores, it said Thursday, turning instead to an equally radical model for selling cars — online sales only.

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