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Except that the largest margin for dealerships and car manufacturers is the Aftersales parts/accessories. There is a good reason they exist, it's just that companies like Tesla are offering a different business model of packaged accessories (some other car manufacturers do similar but usually on top of individual accessories not instead of).

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> Except that the largest margin for dealerships and car manufacturers is the Aftersales parts/accessories

Isn't that always the case? Regardless, cutting out the dealership gives the car companies more margin for this stuff and possibly lower prices for consumers (possibly though probably doubtful).

No, because the manufacturers don't make all the accessories (think window tinting, etc). And the dealerships, which typically become multi-brand dealership groups can get economies of scale the manufacture typically can't.

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