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Tesla Lied To Customers, Blaming Them For Shoddy Parts The Company Knew Were Defective (www.techdirt.com)
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Tesla Lied To Customers, Blaming Them For Shoddy Parts The Company Knew Were Defective::Back in July, Reuters released a bombshell report showing that not only has Tesla aggressively lied about its EV ranges for the better part of the last decade, it created teams whose entire purpose was to lie to customers about it when they called up to complain. The story lasted all of two days in…

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[–] troed@fedia.io 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Test drove the VW ID.7 yesterday. Lease is up on our Tesla in two months and the ID.7 seems to be a great replacement.

[–] poopkins@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I drove an Ionic 5 and immediately fell in love with it. Might also be worth a test drive?

[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Could they really get away with blaming the customer? I mean, warranty is a right, period. Or isn't it in your country?

[–] wahming@monyet.cc 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure anything is a right in the US, except the right to carry guns

[–] LilB0kChoy@midwest.social 4 points 10 months ago

As an American you have the right to be exploited, to serve and enrich the billionaire class, to fund pointless wars, to not be able to afford housing, education or really to live, but by God do you have “freedom”.

[–] SlopppyEngineer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago

Musk often operated using the "better forgiveness than permission" policy

[–] 4realz@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Elon strikes again 😪