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Tesla's verdict against a car owner surnamed Wen in Henan Province was exposed online on November 15. According to the verdict, the people's Court of Guancheng Hui District, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, found that Mr. Wen's remarks infringed upon the reputation of Tesla Automobile (Beijing) Company. The court ruled that Tesla won the case and that Mr. Wen had to make a public apology to Tesla in Henan legal Daily and pay 10, 000 yuan in compensation.

First of all, let's review the cause of the whole incident. According to several media reports, Mr. Wen, the owner of Zhengzhou, said he spent 1.5 million yuan on a Tesla Model X three years ago. In May 2021, he encountered a strange slow-down and brake failure while driving on the highway. The owner claimed to "buy a toy", hoping that Tesla would admit that there was something wrong with the brake system and demanded an apology from Tesla.

Then Tesla officially responded that the Henan car owner Wen's vehicle "high-speed brake failure" and "near accident" incident, the current preliminary remote diagnosis of the vehicle alarm is the right front wheel speed sensor alarm, not the "brake failure" described by Mr. Wen. In addition, Tesla also pointed out in the response statement that the car owner asked Tesla to replace the new Model X model free of charge, but because Mr. Wen's vehicle mileage has exceeded 175000 kilometers and exceeded the vehicle warranty period, he cannot meet the demand for a new Model X model.

On June 6, 2021, a recording of a conversation between Mr. Wen and others circulated on the Internet showed that Mr. Wen suspected of "orchestrating" the campaign to "lose one to three" to Tesla through the pressure of public opinion. In response to the video content, Mr. Wen posted a video response: "under the banner of negotiation with me, Tesla secretly recorded, maliciously edited, distorted the facts, hoping to release the complete recording."

After the audio was exposed, it also attracted great attention on the Internet, when some netizens pointed out that the official media Weibo "Henan TV Station" referred to in the recording had emptied all Weibo, and Henan Radio and Television Minsheng Channel "Great reference" also deleted the previous relevant report. Later, Henan Traffic Radio's official Weibo responded to the incident: with regard to "Mr. Wen exposed that the media planned to implement the Tesla owner's return, one for three," and "the media planned and implemented the incident of protecting the rights of the booth of Tesla, the female owner of the Shanghai Auto Show," Henan Traffic Radio said that it had been reporting in an objective and impartial manner and had never participated in any so-called "planning and implementation".

After that, Tesla took Mr. Wen to court on the grounds of infringing on the right of reputation. Tesla's victory in the case may play a deterrent role in safeguarding rights, but as of press time, Mr. Wen has not issued an apology in Henan legal Daily.

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