The repression of fraud announced France on Tuesday on Tuesday, June 24 in Tesla France on Tuesday, June 24 to “cease its deceptive commercial practices”, after an investigation that “highlighted several infractions and harmful crimes for the consumer and contrary to the law.”
The agents of the General Directorate of Competition, Consumption and Repression of Fraud (DGCCRF) conducted a survey on the French subsidiary of the US car manufacturer between 2023 and 2024, “after several reports presented in Signalconso in 2023,” the organization said in a press release.
The DGCCRF in particular “Sales contracts without date or time or place of delivery of the vehicle and does not mention the payment on the credit”, “the payments required before the end of the retirement period from which the consumer benefits when he finances his purchase for an assigned loan” or even the “absence of receipt was received in the partial payment event in cash.”
A “fraudulent autonomous driving capacity”?
The press release also evokes “deceptive commercial practices regarding the completely autonomous driving capacity of Tesla vehicles, the availability of certain options and the recovery offers of the vehicle.”
Tesla was already under fire for criticism for many years with its semi -autonomous driving system called “autopilot”, which can suggest that you can completely handle driving instead of the driver, which is not the case.
Since 2016, Tesla optionally offers this function of “FSD) (FSD) in the United States and under the name” 100% autonomous driving capacity “in France, which promises to benefit from future updates. If advanced semi -autonomous driving functions have been activated in the entire Atlantic, this is limited to the detection of traffic lights and stops panels in Europe.
Currently, in the model and and model 3, Tesla offers an “improved autopilot” to 3,800 euros and this “totally autonomous driving capacity” at 7,500 euros. In addition to “traffic light control and stop panels,” Tesla evokes “the next updates” that “will allow your vehicle to go almost anywhere, with a minimal intervention by the driver according to the development and regulatory approval)”.
4 months to meet
Tesla France was “pointed out to stop their deceptive commercial practices” and “comply within 4 months with current regulations.”
“In case of non -yield within this period, taking into account the particular severity of the practice, the measure of the court order aimed at the cessation of deceptive commercial practice at the option of totally autonomous driving capacity of certain Tesla vehicles is accompanied by a day of 50,000 euros per day of delay,” he underlies the repression of the craude.
Source: BFM TV
