- Tesla owners are indignant after missing out on a deal that might have saved them as much as $13,000.
- A YouTuber began a petition asking Tesla to supply owners who missed the worth cuts free FSD.
- The Change.org petition has been signed by nearly 4,000 people in per week.
After 1000’s of Tesla owners missed out on massive price cuts, a YouTuber has began a petition to assist them out.
The petition calls for Tesla to present away a yearlong trial of its Full Self-Driving (FSD) software or free Supercharging miles to people who bought Teslas within the fourth quarter of 2022 and missed out on as much as $13,000 in savings.
Dennis Wang — who runs DennisCW, a YouTube channel that focuses on Tesla — created the petition on Change.org on January 17, and it has already garnered nearly 4,000 signatures, with many signees claiming to have bought Teslas late last yr, before the discount.
The YouTuber, who bought a used Model X in September, said he can be “livid” if he had bought a brand new Tesla ahead of the worth cuts, which reduced the worth of the Model Y by as much as $13,000 and the Model 3 by as much as $9,000. Elon Musk’s company delivered about 388,131 Model 3 and Model Y cars within the US in the course of the fourth quarter of 2022.
“I began the petition because I imagine Tesla did an injustice,” Wang told Insider. “It’s form of insane to simply drop the worth overnight like that.”
The YouTuber said he got the concept from a tweet from Ross Gerber, an investment manager and Tesla shareholder, who tweeted that a free six-month trial of FSD “can be helpful with optics.”
Tesla currently offers FSD for a $15,000 one-time fee or as a $199 monthly subscription. The beta software enables the electrical automobile to mechanically change lanes, enter and exit highways, recognize stop signs and traffic lights, and park, but it surely still requires a licensed driver to observe the system in any respect times.
“It form of goes two-fold: Those people would feel like they got some value — they got Full Self-Driving and so they could try it — and at the identical time it could raise adoption,” Wang said in a YouTube video in regards to the petition, adding that Tesla owners which have begun “bad-mouthing Tesla” could grow to be fans again.
While Wang believes that an FSD trial is one of the best option, free charging can also be an option and something the corporate has done prior to now. In December, Tesla offered customers who took deliveries by the tip of the yr 10,000 miles of free charging via Tesla’s faster Supercharging stations.
Wang told Insider that quite a few disgruntled Tesla customers have reached out since he launched the petition, and a few had even made donations to Change.org with a view to help advertise the petition.
“Tesla should do the precise thing to maintain their customers completely happy,” one one who signed the petition wrote on the web site. “We’re loyal to the brand but feel cheated.”
Tesla owners have been expressing their displeasure with the carmaker for weeks. Some individuals who claim to be Tesla owners have taken to social media to voice their anger with the electric-car maker.
Tesla does appear to have given some a price reduction to some buyers who ordered ahead of the worth cuts but had yet to receive their cars. One buyer told Insider he got a $12,000 reduction after asking Tesla to regulate his order’s cost.
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