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Dealers in numerous states have long challenged Tesla's business practice of selling vehicles without a franchise system.
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By:
Pete Bigelow
March 25, 2019 01:30 AM

Stop us if you've heard this one before: Online retailing has mushroomed throughout the consumer world and will soon render a franchised dealer structure antiquated and irrelevant.

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