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Tesla Motor is not allowed to sell their cars in Texas. With much hoolaballoo, uproar, and tumult, Texas Automobile Dealers Association lobbied to lawmakers and won.

Since Tesla doesn’t make use of dealers, then the likelihood of other car manufacturers selling in Texas would also follow the same marketing method.

With the emergence of the hyperloop transportation concept, Tesla is probably looking to find a loophole in the ban against them. So why does Tesla CEO Elon Musk continuously find ways to sell their cars in Texas? This time around, while being known to come up with attention-grabbing stunts, some believe that this concept of the hyperloop transportation might just be the answer to being able to sell the brand in the Lone Star State.

So what is the hyperloop transportation concept of Musk?

He tweeted that the hyperloop test track is the next project that he will be building. It will target companies and students who will be testing the pods. The factory would ‘most likely’ be located in Texas.

Will be building a Hyperloop test track for companies and student teams to test out their pods. Most likely in Texas.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 15, 2015

The hyperloop transportation concept uses tubes that are suspended from pylons.

These pylons are above the ground.  The pods float in the tube on a cushion of air. The tubes are then propelled forward by magnetic levitation. The low friction environment is the reason for the 800 miles per hour maximum speed.  The downside to all these ‘great possibilities’ is the very enclosed enclosure that you would have to subject yourself to, as you test this pod.

The initial Hyperloop concept was actually introduced in 2013. The research and development was not even originally carried out by Musk himself. Instead he gave it to an independent company, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies.

So the big question is…why is Musk undertaking the creation of the test track?

Why is Musk even considering Texas in building the test track?

This is where the connection between Tesla being banned in the state of Texas and Musk’s decision, albeit all said in a roundabout way with no specific and definite announcement, of building the test track in Texas as well.

Recently, Texas “missed out’ in earning the giga-factory that was supposedly Tesla’s battery-cell factory. The factory was awarded to Nevada. Now that there is another possibility of creating another ‘factory’ which could go to Texas, with the building of the track test for the Hyperloop transportation concept, Musk is probably wanting to use this as his ‘bargaining chip’ so Tesla can be allowed to sell cars.

This is actually not the first time that Musk has done this.

In the past, he has tried to use another ‘carrot’ to dangle in front of the lawmakers in Texas by a possibility of another Tesla assembly plant, this time to build an electric pick up…to no avail.

Selling cars is not just what Telsa is all about earning, it may seem…that is, for the state of Texas. Even if Texas is one of the more known states reputed to be home of the Big Oil, it is also one of the most electric car friendly among the many states that are promoting the use of electric cars. What’s more, Texas is also one of the states that rank high in the plug-in vehicle market.