As per Nissan’s request, the tweet has since been taken down
http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/nation/nissan-takes-to-twitter-makes-fun-of-tesla Nissan Takes to Twitter, Makes Fun of Tesla 20 March 2014 BY ABBIE SARFO Tesla Motors just can’t catch a break. In an instance of sore winning, the Nissan Leaf’s social media team poked fun at the beleaguered electric car company through Twitter, autoblog.com reported. Nissan’s tweet, as it appears on autoblog.com, said “It’s okay #NewJersey, you can still #GoElectric with the #NissanLEAF #EV.” Accompanying the text is an image of the Leaf, with the caption “The Nissan Leaf is available in all 50 states, including New Jersey.” Tesla’s battle with New Jersey is well known. According to nj.com, the Motor Vehicle Commission virtually banned Tesla from selling cars in the state. The reason is Tesla’s direct-sale business model: Tesla sells its cars straight from the manufacturer to the consumer, cutting out the middleman car dealer. While Tesla maintains this sales model creates fair pricing for the customer, the Motor Vehicle Commission asserts that car dealers promote competitive pricing, along with better access to warranty claims and other services. Nissan, on the other hand, has been angling to make a mark on the electric car market. The company’s newest offering, the Leaf, is in direct competition with Tesla’s fleet. It’s not surprising, then, that Nissan used Tesla’s woes as a springboard for self-promotion. Yet there’s another layer to this rivalry. Last week, Nissan’s PR chief Simon Sproule left the company to become Tesla’s Vice President of Communications and Marketing, mediabistro.com said. Possibly, Nissan was still sore from this “poaching” of their personnel. Nissan has since acknowledged that the tweet, while in the spirit of good fun, was in poor taste. The Leaf Twitter account is run by a separate ad agency, complex.com reported. As told to autoblog.com, senior social communications specialist Rob Robinson said the offending post "was not a tweet that was reviewed or approved by Nissan. We saw it and asked them to take it down." As per Nissan’s request, the tweet has since been taken down. As Tesla would probably agree, it’s never nice to kick a man while he’s down. [© newjerseynewsroom.com] For all EVLN posts use: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=search_page&node=413529&query=evln&sort=date Here are today's archive-only EV posts: EVLN: Nissan lends EV batteries to GreenDataNet data-centre project EVLN: BYD Electric-Bus trialed in Turkey's capital EVLN: Autonomous Electric-pods are coming, £1.5M project ts:12mph EVLN: Why can’t we agree upon 1 L3/type3 quick-EVSE standard? EVLN: NV's lithium is a lure for Tesla Gigafactory to the state + EVLN: $25k works-electric.com "Baker" Electric Chopper (video) {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-Jab-Tesla-Leaf-available-in-50-states-including-New-Jersey-tp4668643.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
