September 22, 2016
By Brent Snavely and Frank Witsil
Electric automaker Tesla (click here) filed a lawsuit today against state officials, escalating its multi-year battle to sell vehicles directly to consumers in Michigan.
The California automaker named Michigan Secretary of State Ruth Johnson, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette, and Gov. Rick Snyder in its lawsuit filed in in federal court.
Tesla's action is part of an escalating conflict that is playing out nationwide – through legislatures, regulatory agencies and the courts – between the upstart The Palo Alto, Calif.-based automaker and dealers associations as states to sort out whether Tesla should be allowed to sell directly to customers....
