{"id":32477,"date":"2025-06-24T15:14:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T15:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=32477"},"modified":"2025-06-24T15:14:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T15:14:04","slug":"tesla-threatened-with-fine-in-france-over-deceptive-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=32477","title":{"rendered":"Tesla threatened with fine in France over \u2018deceptive\u2019 claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description o3-type-body-base\"><span>Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=4402c45b-c98f-4250-b783-f704c7ca4d28\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>France\u2019s consumer affairs and fraud investigators have ordered Tesla to stop \u201cdeceptive\u201d claims over the level of autonomy of its cars or face thousands of euros in fines, in the latest blow to Elon Musk\u2019s car company in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators at France\u2019s competition, consumer affairs and anti-fraud directorate general (DGCCRF) said that an enquiry carried out in 2023 and 2024 had found a string of breaches and offences that were unfair to consumers and against the law. <\/p>\n<p>The probe by the government body found that Tesla had engaged in \u201cdeceptive commercial practices\u201d about the ability of its Tesla vehicles to be \u201cfully autonomous\u201d, as well as deceiving customers on the availability of certain options for their cars, the investigators said.<\/p>\n<p>Other infringements identified by the DGCCRF included sales contracts with no dates, times or place of vehicle delivery, failure to provide refunds or receipts, and failure to refund customers in a timely manner.<\/p>\n<p>The DGCCRF called on Tesla to comply with the order within four months. It said that the \u201cparticular seriousness\u201d of the misleading practices over autonomous vehicles meant that Tesla would face fines of \u20ac50,000 per day for each day that it did not conform with demands to stop misleading customers over the cars\u2019 ability to drive themselves.<\/p>\n<p>The French inquiry into Tesla\u2019s self-driving technology comes as other regulators have also pulled up the car company on the practice. <\/p>\n<p>In its home market in the US, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration continues to carry out multiple investigations into Musk\u2019s claims about the capabilities of Tesla\u2019s autopilot and \u201cfull self-driving\u201d systems. Despite its name, the full self-driving system still requires humans to sit in the driver\u2019s seat and pay full attention \u2014 unlike Google\u2019s Waymo taxis.<\/p>\n<p>The threat of fines is also the latest blow for Tesla in Europe, where sales have fallen dramatically in recent months as buyers have been turned off the brand by Musk\u2019s right-wing politics.<\/p>\n<p>In France, sales of Teslas dropped 67 per cent in May compared with the same period a year previously, with new registrations at their lowest level since July 2022, according to data from Plateforme Automobile, an industry body.<\/p>\n<p>A handful of Tesla drivers are also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/ef4a97f1-8196-4abe-93b1-73f90fdefa42\" data-trackable=\"link\">suing<\/a> the company to terminate the leases for their vehicles, alleging Musk\u2019s political activities, including making apparent Nazi salutes and offering support for Germany\u2019s far-right AfD, have made their cars \u201cfar-right totems\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/4402c45b-c98f-4250-b783-f704c7ca4d28\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":32478,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}