A Former Employee Claims Tesla Knowingly Sold Defective Cars
A former Tesla employee has filed a lawsuit against the electric car maker, accusing it of knowingly selling defective or even dangerous cars.
According to papers filed with the New Jersey Superior Court, ex-Tesla regional manager Adam Williams says he saw first-hand that the company failed “to disclose to consumers high-dollar, pre-delivery damage repairs” and that cars with potentially serious issues were simply used as demonstrators or even sold as ‘used.’ One shocking example was uploaded to the Tesla Motors Club forum.
Williams also claims that he was demoted and ultimately fired after he reported the alleged shady goings-on to the Tesla East Coast regional manager Lenny Peake and company vice president Jerome Guillen.
The lawsuit alleges a whole bundle of illegal practices and Williams’ lawyer is reportedly asking for him to be protected by America’s ‘whistleblower act’ that covers employees who report such things.
Naturally, Tesla denies the claims. A spokesman told The Verge:
“There’s no merit to this lawsuit. Mr. Williams’ description of how Tesla sells used or loaner vehicles is totally false and not how we do things at Tesla.
“It’s also at odds with the fact that we rank highest in customer satisfaction of any car brand, with more owners saying they’d buy a Tesla again than any other manufacturer.
“Mr. Williams was terminated at Tesla for performance reasons, not for any other reason.”
Production quality issues are not a new thing for Tesla, with the Model 3 coming in for stinging criticism over its build quality, not to mention perpetual delivery delays.
Source: CarScoops
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electrifying
Tesla like Apple, has a huge base of fanboys who believe any shit that they come up with.
The real reason for high customer satisfaction is that owners don’t know any better.
I agree mostly, (Plus this is not car discussion) but Iphone users fall under that category.Mac users don’t. Even people who really know tech prefer mac.
And perhaps they can use this massive base and hype to their financial and corporate success…They probably already are.
Wow! Thats shocking!
Ignore the haters and ignore the fan bois, the fact is that poor business practices like this can and has happened. It should be taken very seriously and it should be thoroughly investigated by the Better Business Bureau. I hope that they do not find anything for the sake of fair business practices but we all remember Volkswagen right?
Honestly even if he was fired for “performance reasons” it’s awfully suspicious timing.
That or he decided to invent some story to get revenge precisely because he was fired.
I’m no Tesla fan but there no way to verify what he says, that’s the problem.
If anything Tesla would’ve absolutely prevented him from snitching if they knew by making him sign a NDA or something.
The very fact that he’s the one timing his story that well points just as well to a possible lie.
I wonder whete tesla got their data?
Oh tesla haha, remember these days, it’s a small step in tesla becoming totally non existent
“we rank highest in customer satisfaction of any car brand” REALLY?
I’m honestly very very surprised, based on the things that I see and read online Tesla charges more for their cars then Germans charge for equivalent cars ++ the cars are built like garbage.
Is this not true? (Cause it’s unlikely that ALL owners are stupid)
(Example:
Model 3 costs as much as E-class, it is worse in every way. Also, the E-class is built with unrivaled precision and is pretty much perfect, the model 3 is built like a 90s Kia and the interior is cheaper than a toyota Iq)
Not a smart people who think electric cars are green cars…
Coal and nuclear power plants loads the energy to their plugs.
Tech guys buy Tesla, about 88 percent the same who loves any Apple product. They buy everything which looks trendy by marketing bullshits
21st century is about YOU: live your life healthy, be nice (go to plastic surgery), eat healthy green products, travel with green cars (and think you will save the future) etc.
BMW IS involved in the Dieselgate, not IF IT WAS. The diesel cartel pushing diesel lobbyism and that commissioned Bosch with the development of the emission cheating engine was composed of VW, BMW, Audi, and Porsche.
All that has been well documented and substantiated.
The time for “if”s is long over.