“If you want to buy a Tesla in the Garden State, after April 1 you’ll have to try your luck somewhere else.

New Jersey regulators caved to pressure from car dealers and decided on Tuesday to ban automakers that want to sell directly to customers from doing so in the state. The New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission rushed through a rule change and voted 6-0 to adopt this new regulation that mandates that all new car dealers get a franchise agreement if they want a state license to sell cars in New Jersey.

Electric automaker Tesla Motors had previously received licenses to operate two stores in the state, and had been selling cars directly to consumers for about a year.”* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*Read more here from Ryan Koronowski / Think Progress:
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/03/12/3395091/new-jersey-banned-tesla/#