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Rivian Sues To Sell Its EVs Directly In Ohio
Tuesday August 5, 2025. 01:20 AM , from Slashdot
![]() Allowing Rivian to sell directly would not be treading new legal ground, the company argues in its complaint. Tesla has had a license to sell in Ohio since 2013 and can sell directly to consumers. What's stopping Rivian is a 2014 law passed by the state's legislature. That law, which Rivian says came after an intense lobbying effort by the Ohio Automobile Dealers Association (OADA), effectively gave Tesla a carve-out and blocked any future manufacturers from acquiring the necessary dealership licenses. 'Consumer choice is a bedrock principle of America's economy. Ohio's archaic prohibition against the direct-sales of vehicles is unconstitutional, irrational, and harms Ohioans by reducing competition and choice and driving up costs and inconvenience,' Mike Callahan, Rivian's chief administrative officer, said in a statement. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/08/04/2223229/rivian-sues-to-sell-its-evs-directly-in-ohio?utm_sou...
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