I think this would have gone over much better...since its easier to increase the cost of the car, and not be labelled a money grabbing, cheap skating, miserly skin flint doing it this way. Cmon, Elon sleeps on his friends couches, give the guy a break.
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Mobile Charger no longer included
- Thread starter Anish3232
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It's not a freebie, since Tesla has the highest margins in the industry they have more than baked in the cost of the charger to the price of the car. The difference between being a money grab and actually caring about waste would be in how they carried out the change. They should have made it an option to select a mobile charger for free if you need/want one. Don't select the mobile charger if you don't want/need one.
That is how you show you truly care about limiting waste, not just about the money.
Again, Tesla has the highest margins in the industry and just had another record profit quarter. Their price increases are not linear to their cost increases. Since Tesla admits they saved money and are ahead of the industry with their long-term contracts saving them money.
You must also think Exxon Mobil is raising gas prices solely based on their cost of a barrel of crude oil, ignoring they turned a 7 year record profit in Q1 of 2022.
sleepydoc
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Right, but they are removing the charger, so those costs disappear. If you want to get technical, the extra profit is the manufacturing and shipping costs of the chargers.
Of course you can also argue that they will then take those same chargers and sell them in their online store for $200, so in then end, they make $200.
FastEddieB
Member
And you get to decide this because……
Is it hurting your feelings that maybe Elon is actually looking to nickel and dime customers on this one?
Do you honestly think anyone would not select a free item on a car? Heck I probably would have selected it and just ebayed it since I don't need it.
If there was any substantial cost I probably would not.
Smarter thing would have been to add an option to decline the mobile charging cord for like a $100-200 credit instead. But then that would undermine Tesla's "no discounts!" narrative.
All I can say I ordered wall connector two weeks ago before new pricing and after I wrote to customer service they refund the difference of 95 dollars for me. Awesome. So much for Evil Tesla who doesn’t care about customer and only care about profits narrative. Lol
Are you saying, as a publicly owned company, Tesla doesn't care about profits?
Any business is there to make money. My point is Tesla is not evil! Like some trying to paint them as such.
sleepydoc
Well-Known Member
I think that's more your inability to handle criticism of Tesla and tying to say that anyone who criticizes Tesla is painting them as Evil as a means of deflection.
It's perfectly possible to like Tesla and not agree with everything they do.
Yeah like the stupid Yoke and no stalks. Man that is such a dumb idea with zero advantage. And now Lexus is doing one. God I hope all car manufacturers don't go all battlestar galactica on us. I don't need my controls to somehow look like a spaceship I'm not a 12 year old boy.
Sorry off topic
That’s funny. I actually thinking to buy yoke for our model 3
))You seem to have a lot of criticism vs enjoyment with your Tesla. You keep on promoting other EV brands on Tesla forum which is weird too.
Excellent point and it's constant criticism about nearly every tiny detail... becomes comical after a while actually
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