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Tesla’s spite-move to Texas may not have been such a clever idea, after all
- a3n 5y agoTexas is a pretty big state. If you live somewhere in the middle, it's gonna be a drive with a friend (to drive car 1 back), a hotel stay, and a drive back, across an area that may not have much charging facilities, across a state that is legislatively hostile to non-oil energy. Or you could contract with a car carrier to bring your car back. Ah, a new line of business for hotshot truckers: carry it out of state, wait a decent interval, and carry it back in to where it's going. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trucking_industry_in_the_United_States#HotShot https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trucking_industry_in_the_Uni... Smoove move.
- pasttense01 5y agoTexas is less that 10% of the car market. Tesla still has a huge manufacturing plant in California to supply this market which will probably continue permanently. [I expect though that either the law will be changed or a workaround developed.]