In the past it was a problem due to the way CA taxes cars the way Best Buy taxes televisions, tax is paid at point of sale, vs other states that tax at point of registration. In some cases you can get credit for tax paid to another state, but in NJ they don't tax EVs, so you'd pay CA a hefty sum just to take delivery there.In this vein of the European delivery program, I have often wondered why Tesla could not implement a similar program for people from other States to go to Fremont and pick up for later registration in their own state. I have brought up this idea previously here and the responses were to do with insurance and ownership in transit but all speculation. If someone knows exactly why this cannot be done within the US but allowed from overseas enlighten us. But again if the European delivery program works for BMW and MB, why not a similar program for the only direct sales company in the US? I'd sure have had my car by now because I'd totally take the time off to drive back from Fremont.
Hopefully being a TX-based company now could possibly alleviate that in the future? I think it'd be fun to take delivery in Austin and road trip back home!