Tesla Ends Its Referral Program For Everything Except Solar Roof:
Tesla has now officially ended its referral program for its vehicles and everything else except its solar roof.
We expect a new version of the program to launch in the near future.
For years, Tesla relied on its referral program to boost demand.
The automaker doesn’t like to spend on marketing or advertising and instead, it relied on its userbase to promote its vehicles and rewarded them in the process.
[...] At the peak of the program, Tesla was giving away free new Roadsters to owners who accumulated enough referrals.
An impressive number of people ended up reaching that level, and we estimated that Tesla would be giving away about 80 new Roadsters on top of giving out significant discounts to many more.
[...] “As of September 18, 2021, vehicle products, and solar panels are no longer eligible for Referral awards.”
However, Tesla is keeping the referral program for Solar Roof and even increasing it to $500 award per system activation:
“At this time, orders for Solar Roof are eligible for the Referral Program. To earn Referral awards, Solar Roof orders must be placed through your unique referral link. Note that referrals cannot be added after an order is placed, and awards are granted after the Solar Roof system receives permission to operate on the grid from your utility.”
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by ChrisMaple on Wednesday September 22 2021, @03:37PM (11 children)
The referral program might explain why Tesla owners are so loudly enthusiastic about their vehicles.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday September 22 2021, @04:21PM (9 children)
That Tesla owners are so loudly enthusiastic about their vehicles might explain why there is a referral program.
Sort of like the correlation between the tides and phases of the moon makes it obvious that the tides cause the phases of the moon.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 22 2021, @04:47PM
You're nowhere near as smart a you think you are.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/electric-car-batteries-hellscape [futurism.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 22 2021, @05:30PM (6 children)
What is the relationship between the tides and the phases of the Moon? I'm not aware there were any. Do the tides go away during the new moon or something?
(Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Wednesday September 22 2021, @06:40PM (1 child)
It's similar to how increased ice cream sales during summer causes higher temperatures during summer.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 22 2021, @08:01PM
Ice cream... something our resident pedophile uses as bait to get children into his basement.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 22 2021, @09:25PM (2 children)
Isn't the phase of the moon a factor in when the high and low tide occur locally on any given day?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 22 2021, @09:39PM
No, the distance of the moon from the earth matters. And due to orbital precession, that changes independent of phase.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 22 2021, @10:52PM
In case someone reading this thread doesn't actually know, the phase of the moon is what determines both when high and low tides occur and how strong they are. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tide [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 3, Informative) by Immerman on Thursday September 23 2021, @01:45AM
Tides get more intense near the new and full moons.
The phases of the moon indicate the angle between the Moon and the sun. And the sun also generates tides, I think something like 30% as tall as lunar tides.
When the sun and moon are in a line with Earth (new and full moons), then the two tides add together and you get more extreme tides. When they're at right angles (a 50% moon) they're fighting against each other and the tides become much less pronounced.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday September 23 2021, @12:44AM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 4, Touché) by Tork on Wednesday September 22 2021, @04:28PM
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 5, Interesting) by TheGratefulNet on Wednesday September 22 2021, @03:38PM (5 children)
model 3 owner, had mine 2 years so far. been mostly trouble free but I worry quite a lot about having an accident or some break-down and not being able to get parts. windshields are backordered for weeks or months. other parts are also.
I've read problems of leaking windshields on model Y (lots of model y issues), heat pump noise that wont go away, water in the center console (drainage problem from AC). panel alignments are horrible, inside noise is very high. my model 3 has a clicking on the front end when I turn the wheels to extremes and it was 'fixed' once before but its now back again (ball joints or links). others have this issue, too.
how do you get the service center's attention? you use an app. no phone no other way. sucks! and if you dont get any reply or get ignored, your ONLY recourse is to try to tweet the ceo. can you imagine?
I'm done with tesla. was my first and will be my last. the company has jumped the shark and just does not care anymore. they have a waitlist that is months long for suckers buying this car. yes, its fast and handles well and its level2 lane keeping is pretty good, but it wont ever be more than level2, its sensor-starved (and they just removed radar from the fusion set) and the company does not care about you, anymore. honeymooon is long over.
please dont buy these cars; you probably wont need service, but if you do, you'll hate your life.
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 22 2021, @04:46PM (1 child)
I am too tall to even fit into those roller skates.
When will real vehicals be built?
(Score: 2) by TheGratefulNet on Wednesday September 22 2021, @07:00PM
try the Rivian's when they come out.
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 22 2021, @08:04PM (2 children)
>>please dont buy these cars; you probably wont need service, but if you do, you'll hate your life.
I think you misunderstood... Tesla cancelled their referral program, they didn't initiate an anti-referral program.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 22 2021, @09:33PM
I think he figures that if he drives enough people away from Tesla, they'll come and take their lemon of a car away from him. :)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 22 2021, @11:00PM
Could be worse, just wait until they take their car disposal program out of beta...
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday September 22 2021, @04:51PM (7 children)
Tesla is not good about marketing their solar roofs. Their salespeople don't talk to you about them; there's a chance for a whole-household bundle to implement a Tesla roof with powerwall and a Tesla car, but they don't talk about that. It's difficult to get a quote out of them for a solar roof plus battery, and when you do it's almost double the cost that other solar companies will charge.
Elon Musk has a lot of companies going, but if they're not going to work to make the solar roofs successful and easy for homeowners they ought to kill that line of business and concentrate on the others.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 22 2021, @05:48PM
Didn't he only get into that business (buying up Solar City) because he forced that sale because his cousins owned that company? The little I read of the recent trial didn't back his argument that purchasing Solar City was part of his grand "green" plan.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by RedGreen on Wednesday September 22 2021, @10:07PM (5 children)
"Elon Musk has a lot of companies going, but if they're not going to work to make the solar roofs successful and easy for homeowners they ought to kill that line of business and concentrate on the others."
Are you nuts why would they do that? They have the hype of the green solar, the tax credits they get from that. Then the lets get the suckers in another round of financing for expansion. It is just too good a scam for them not to play it like all his others businesses. And in the end that is all Musk is, a modern day P.T. Barnum with a better than one a minute, I would bet coming, through his doors. His support of the crypto shows his true colours one of the most ecological damaging enterprises on the planet but there is good money to be scammed from it.
"I modded down, down, down, and the flames went higher." -- Sven Olsen
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Thursday September 23 2021, @12:35PM (4 children)
That doesn't seem accurate. Tesla cars exist and are driven on the road all around the world; he is single-handedly bringing the age of the internal combustion engine to a close. SpaceX is building real rockets that are succeeding at real launches. Elon Musk may tend to over-promise, but real results do come out of his efforts. P.T. Barnum never did anything real but scam people.
One of the reasons people like crypto currency is because it undermines the control of the traditional finance system. Given the harm the latter has done to the world and its environment, supporting crypto seems justifiable.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by RedGreen on Thursday September 23 2021, @03:21PM (2 children)
If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it is a duck. Just because he has had some accomplishments does not change the fact he is scamming weasel. And single handedly made electric cars a reality what a load of crap that is, he jumped on the bandwagon like he does with everything selling the snake oil. I knew it was over a hundred years ago the first one was produced .... Oh and old P.T. provided entertainment to the masses all while not pretending to be some saviour of mankind, he laid it all out on the line nothing pretentious there.
https://www.energy.gov/articles/history-electric-car [energy.gov]
"I modded down, down, down, and the flames went higher." -- Sven Olsen
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 23 2021, @11:57PM
Electric cars existed, sure, but they were impractical novelties, just like early gasoline cars were. What Musk did was make them practical and common, just like Ford did with gas cars a century earlier.
(Score: 2) by RedGreen on Tuesday September 28 2021, @01:55AM
Apparently cannot run a battery backup either despite promises it would work so now are being sued for its problems, seen this article and thought of this posting...
https://www.vice.com/en/article/epneq4/a-tesla-big-battery-is-getting-sued-over-power-grid-failures-in-australia [vice.com]
"I modded down, down, down, and the flames went higher." -- Sven Olsen
(Score: 2) by Dopefish on Monday September 27 2021, @05:13AM
I'm inclined to disagree, as the ends certainly don't justify the means. Cryptocurrency is only really liked by two kinds of people...
1. Early adopters that picked the right magical cryptocurrency, and thus promote the hell out of it at the expense of everyone's mental health.
2. Problem gamblers.
Everything about it screams modern-day MLM. You want people to HODL their precious tokens after inserting their fiat into the system, so that the early adopters and whales can cash out.
The notion that this is some kind of proper sticking it to the banking system needs to get their head examined. If anyone knew what went on with the exchanges, they'd be disgusted.