> The intent of the NM law that prevented Tesla from doing this e.g. in downtown Santa Fe was to prevent manufacturers from undercutting dealers who had done th

> The intent of the NM law that prevented Tesla from doing this e.g. in downtown Santa Fe was to prevent manufacturers from undercutting dealers who had done the work of proving a market by opening their own stores in direct competition. There are arguments for and against this, but it's not clearly a completely stupid idea on its face. Proving that there was a market for cars? If so that seems unlikely that you'd need to prove that there's a market for them in NM. So perhaps the dealers proved the market for specific types of cars, like Fords and GMs. In that case, they never did that for Tesla, so it's not a fair law. In any case, this belongs in a contract, not the legal code.