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Since the Tesla model entered the domestic market, the relevant complaints have never stopped. From the arbitrary price adjustment last year to the current "hidden sales" have been protected by a large number of domestic car owners, and it even appears that Tesla is not sincere enough to China, but it seems that Tesla is also the same in the North American local market.

A few days ago, four months after the launch of the upgraded version of the domestic Model 3 standard, the news that the domestic long-range rear wheel drive version was about to appear on the market came out again. Although the difference between the two models is 40, 000 yuan, and the subsidised price of the new model is 339050 yuan, the latter has better performance than the two models and has more mileage than the 223km to 668km, making it the longest Model 3 in Tesla's history. As a result, shortly after the release of the new car, it was dissatisfied with a large number of owners of the upgraded version of the domestic Model 3 standard, and went to the Tesla showroom to protect their rights. As the incident quickly received multi-party attention, and widely spread on the Internet.

Although many netizens feel that Tesla's behavior is sincere enough, there are also many netizens who think that the normal situation is true. Therefore, in response to the incident, some media conducted a netizen vote proposal, the result found that most netizens think: do not support the Tesla car owner's rights protection behavior.

Judging from the two votes, the vast majority of netizens thought it was normal, saying that "the iterative cycle of new energy vehicles is relatively fast, and consumers should be psychologically prepared," accounting for more than 60% of the votes. On the other hand, about 30% of netizens expressed support for safeguarding their rights.

Although the standard battery life upgrade version of the domestic Model 3 has only been on the market for about four months, it has been learned from some new owners of the model that they believe that Tesla is "deceiving". Because they were told that the domestic Model 3 long-range rear wheel drive version will not be launched in the near future or will not be domestic news, they raised the standard continued version in advance. Some netizens even said that they have only bought the standard version for two weeks! The 4s store clearly said that the long-lasting version would not come out this year, but as a result, it only opened a thousand kilometers in two weeks, and the news of the long-lasting flight came out.

According to the news announced by Tesla on April 10, the domestic Model 3 long-range rear-wheel drive version is officially on the market, with a price of 339050 yuan (after subsidy), comprehensive mileage of 668km, and the current Model 3 standard battery life upgrade version of 445km, a difference of 223km. According to Tesla, the first batch of new cars will be delivered in June this year.

In view of the current complaints about car owners, the official side of Tesla has not yet responded.

In fact, apart from Tesla's "concealment" of sales this time, it also appeared on Xiaopeng's car as early as last year. After a large number of Xiaopeng owners bought the 2019 Xiaopeng G3, Xiaopeng released cheaper models with longer cruising mileage in a relatively short time. As soon as the model was released, it was protected by a large number of car owners, and even "occupied" Xiaopeng automobile headquarters.

In the end, Xiaopeng Motor gave a corresponding compensation plan, but it was also unable to meet the owners who had bought the old Xiaopeng G3, and even some owners showed that they were ready to sue. According to legal personages, if the introduction of the old model by the salesperson is true and there are no other fictional facts, it will be difficult to determine in law as a fraud and it will be difficult to terminate the contract. At the same time, it is not easy to organize evidence to prove that salespeople have subjective and deliberate concealment of facts. With the passage of time, Xiaopeng's "rights protection" incident also came to an end.

Although with the iterative acceleration of electric vehicles, the breakthrough of battery technology and the decline of costs, the price of electric vehicles will fluctuate with the law of the industry. It's just that Xiaopeng Motor has made a certain compensation plan for consumers in the face of rights protection events, while Tesla has always been in a more "arrogant" behavior in the rights protection incident in China, which does not seem to be very sincere. However, this did not stop Tesla's popularity in China. Tesla registered 12709 new cars in China in March, up from 2314 in February, according to LMC, a market forecaster for the auto industry.

It is worth noting that according to Tesla's localization report, the current localization rate of Model 3 made in Shanghai is only 30%. With the gradual improvement of the degree of localization, Tesla's domestic models are expected to decline, so it is difficult to predict the price of Tesla.

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