Quality issues: A Tesla Inc Model 3 long range electric vehicle charges at the Tesla Supercharger station in Kettleman City, California, US. Tesla believes Nextmove’s decision to cancel its remaining Model 3 order wasn’t entirely due to quality issues, and was largely influenced by frustration with an unrelated dispute earlier in the year. — Bloomberg
FRANKFURT: Stefan Moeller began this year with an ambitious target: to make his car-rental company Nextmove the biggest Tesla Inc customer in Germany by adding 100 Model 3s to its fleet. He likened the electric car’s arrival on Europe’s shores to a tsunami washing over a region that’s been slow to embrace battery-powered autos.
But the powerful wave Moeller expected has collapsed to a trickle. After weeks of back and forth over unfulfilled repair work and quality issues involving the initial 15 sedans that Tesla delivered - from scratched bumpers to moisture trapped behind the headlights - the order of the remaining 85 Model 3s was called off.
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