“Giving“ one with every car? You mean as in Tesla “gives” us a steering wheel/yoke with every car? I think we well and truly paid for that item. It’s removal simple raises the margin, as would removing the steering wheel/yoke.
Look, they have had no problem repeatedly raising the prices of the cars by THOUSANDS of dollars several times, and why are people not losing their everloving minds about that?! THAT is something that really is about the money. That is very straightforward about getting more money--a lot of it. It is the same thing for a higher price.
People are just looking for some conspiracy. I whole heartedly believe the removal of items has only one goal to speed up delivery. They could have increased the price of the car by $200 and no one would have cared. How short sighted are people? No one would refuse a free charger even if you have 10 sitting collecting dust people would ebay them or just throw them in the basement vs not taking one with a car. You have to put a price on something so that people actually don't choose to take one with every car.
They could have given people a credit to not take one. Then it doesn't seem like they're nickel and diming people.
That's very much playing a psychology game. When they have raised prices by multiple thousands of dollars several times in a row, and people never got upset or made a peep of noise about them, why would there be any indication that people would go ballistic and accuse them of being criminals for doing something that costs $200? People are being ridiculously irrational. But you are right in the outcome, that it would have cost Tesla relatively little but kept people from going insane.
What's the difference? They are giving you a credit you save $200 if you don't take it.
If it wasn’t about the money they could have dropped the car price by the price of the (now optional) charger.
