This thing was announced over 4 years ago. Tesla has been taking preorders for 4 years. It’s a little late to change the agreement. Then again, I can’t imagine ordering this thing 4 years ago and still wanting it after everything Elon has done.
I just got my Tesla back after 11 months in the shop waiting on Tesla to provide the parts needed after a relatively minor fender bender. I love that car, genuinely, but NOBODY should be buying a Tesla until they get their supply chain shit together. It’s certainly the last time I buy a car from a manufacturer that isn’t well-established (sorry, Rivian, Lucid, etc.)
For anyone just reading the headline, it’s already been deleted:
[…] a now-deleted update to the electric carmaker’s terms of service said the firm could sue customers for $50,000 or more if they resell during the first year of ownership without first getting written permission from Tesla. The provision seemed designed to deter scalping for a car expected to be available only in limited quantities after CEO Elon Musk’s statement that Tesla “dug our own grave with the Cybertruck.”
Telsa isn’t even close to being the first automaker to do this, it is to prevent scalping on pre-orders.
Corvette https://canadiancorvetteforums.com/threads/one-year-restriction-on-selling.63133/
Porsche https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a45429246/porsche-to-fight-911-st-flippers-with-leasing/
I knew Elon was a prat the second he sued Top Gear and lost over a Tesla review.
Top Gear were kinder than they really should have been.