A Tesla store in Colorado may have skipped out on as many 20,000 toll payments, according to a recent lawsuit filed by Northwest Parkway LLC. The company, which operates a toll road near Denver, says the automaker owes it $34,000.
Northwest Parkway is a short section of toll road between Highway E-470 and U.S. Highway 36 just north of Denver. It was apparently used by vehicles with plates registered to a Tesla store in Littleton, Colorado, to the south of the city.
It remains unclear how long the store has been failing to pay tolls, but Autonews reports that the road charges between $1.70 and $5.20 for two-axle vehicles. The alleged figure of $34,000 amounts to exactly 20,000 of the lower-priced tolls.
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“Ongoing and continuous use of the Northwest Parkway by the motor vehicle(s) registered to defendant Tesla Inc. constitutes consent and agreement to the terms of use and creates a binding contract between Tesla Inc. and plaintiff Northwest Parkway LLC,” it alleged in its complaint. “The failure to pay Go-Pass toll bills on time is a breach of the contract for use of the Northwest Parkway and subjects defendant Tesla Inc. to additional fees and legal action.”
Since Tesla operates a direct-to-consumer business model, instead of a dealership model, it is on the hook for the actions of the Tesla store in Littleton. And it’s hardly the first time that a company owned by Elon Musk has been accused of failing to pay on time.
In June, a judge approved the eviction of X Corp. (formerly Twitter) from an office in Boulder, Colorado. A notice posted by the landlord in charge of the building said that the company, which was recently purchased by Musk, was $179,000 behind on rent. Another company in the same city sued X Corp. in May for nearly $100,000 saying the social media company owed it for unpaid bills relating to cleaning.
