UPDATE: Tesla Wins Vs Ohio Car Dealers, Amendment Defeated

Once more into the fray: Another state's car dealers are pushing for legislation to ban Tesla Motors from selling its electric cars directly to buyers.

This time it's Ohio. And legislators have unexpectedly moved up a hearing on the new law to today, according to a letter from Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA].The hearing takes place early this afternoon.

The Ohio Dealers Association is backing an amendment to Ohio Senate Bill 137--an unrelated bill that requires Ohio drivers to move left so as to leave an empty lane between themselves and highway maintenance vehicles at the side of the road,

Attaching the anti-Tesla amendment to an uncontroversial bill already moving toward adoption could see it become law more quickly than on its own.The proposed amendment would ban Tesla's practiceof selling its electric cars directly to customers, who place their orders online with the company after seeing and learning about the Model S in company-owned stores.

That would require Tesla to transact its sales through independently-owned third parties, which is to say, traditional car dealerships.

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