Took delivery a little over 2 weeks back, and yes the car was inspected before I took delivery. I had the inspection papers & Teslas registration info -- both were pretty much "harrumphed" by the police officer in the most expedient way possible. Honestly the officer wasn't rude or anything, just had zero interest in entertaining the notion that my Tesla tag was legal. Yes, as you note, Texas long ago passed a (let's rock caps) LAW about needing your new car's temporary tags/plates prominently displayed as well as full front/back plates. Mine are, they just happened to not be in the form of a rectangular "Dealer..." plate with large text as spc mentioned in his own workaround (good idea, btw! I might just do that myself). Indeed I do have a full packet from Tesla, but your assumption is incorrect that I have everything I need to go get plates. I researched how all this is done for months, but I didn't buy -- under the conditions of their newest lease-instrument the registration and plates are handled by the lease-holder. So plates are not being handled directly by me, but I already got my ETA on plates from my SA so none of the buying-part of this really applies. If I had bought I definitely would have my plates done by now. lol (and I got a magnetic front plate kit to be installed, for that whole license plate front/back LAW stuff - a dumb law in my opinion).



It's just odd to me that the officer did not want to consider an out-of-state purchased/leased car with pending full Texas registration. I paid a good amount of sales tax to this state for an American-made product in a state that claims to be all for this sort of thing, so I do think I have a right to be scratching my head here. lol And I also have a right to fully believe this happened as a direct result of the protectionist chickens in the auto lobby not allowing Tesla to supply dealer plates.



At any rate, I fully intend to go to Fort Worth in a few days and respectfully challenge every iota of the citation in open court.

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