My car was delivered in May to my home in Michigan. Box trailer with a single vehicle. I'm not aware of any laws one way of the other. The car is also registered in Michigan. No questions were ever raised to me about feasibility.
Coldwater MI service center is (I think ) the only physical location in the state.
Thanks for the update. That means Lucid owners are doing much better than Tesla owners before the Tesla exception loopholes. More significantly, Lucid now has a physical Service Center when Tesla was forbidden to have one. Tesla prevention annual service or broken ones used to have to be done out of state.
Michigan legislators tried to reverse Tesla exception but failed and Lucid issued the statement:
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We expect this issue to continue to be deliberated when the legislature starts its session next year. Even so, we remain confident that state leaders will make the right decisions for their constituents and to encourage economic growth. For those reasons, we did now slow our efforts to establish a strong presence in the state of Michigan. This includes a service center in Coldwater that is near opening with additional retail and service locations planned in the future.”"
Electric vehicle manufacturers like Tesla, Lucid Motors, and Rivian will live on in Michigan after House Bill 6233, which aimed to ban EV companies’ direct sales and service, dissipated in the State Senate after weeks of legislating. Teslarati reported in early December that language that would...
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Again, I am not familiar with Michigan but I can read the news.
It's possible that owners in dealership-only states like Michigan and Texas don't have to travel out-of-state to buy their cars but must pay in advance to prove that they comply with the law as the payments are received out-of-state (the buying transaction doesn't physically happen in-state).
That alone is a big improvement from the day of
Governor Rick Snyder's law: "not only does it further ensure that company cannot sell directly to consumers in the state, it goes so far as to prohibit Tesla from displaying its cars to and communicating with potential customers in Michigan."
In general, paying in advance is fine, except some would like to have an option available in other EV-direct-sales states that allow customers to pay in person, in-state, at the delivery because they want to make sure the car is fine before paying for it just like the way it should be at a traditional dealer.
So, congratulations to Lucid owners in Michigan, you don't have to travel out of state anymore!
