{"id":339212,"date":"2025-06-25T07:15:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T14:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=339212"},"modified":"2025-07-01T14:18:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T21:18:03","slug":"tesla-faces-e50000-daily-fines-for-deceptive-practices-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/tesla-faces-e50000-daily-fines-for-deceptive-practices-in-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Faces \u20ac50,000 Daily Fines for Deceptive Practices in France"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The French Ministry of the Economy has delivered a substantial blow to Tesla, ordering the company to comply with local laws regarding deceptive business practices within four months or face hefty fines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>If Tesla fails to meet this directive, it will incur daily penalties of \u20ac50,000 (approximately $58,000)<\/strong>. The ministry&#8217;s investigation, prompted by customer complaints through the SignalConso service, uncovered numerous violations including misleading claims regarding the company\u2019s fully autonomous driving capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>French authorities found that Tesla misled customers about its Full Self-Driving (FSD) software, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.softonic.com\/articulos\/la-conduccion-100-autonoma-de-tesla-podria-llegar-a-europa-muy-pronto-estamos-a-salvo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"which the company currently sells for \u20ac7,500.\">which the company currently sells for \u20ac7,500.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tesla threatened with fine in France over \u2018deceptive\u2019 claims <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/E58FmvOBdw\">https:\/\/t.co\/E58FmvOBdw<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Financial Times (@FT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FT\/status\/1937512398107107418?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 24, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Elon Musk&#8217;s Controversial Statements Add to Tesla&#8217;s Troubles in France<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Despite its name, FSD does not provide fully autonomous driving; instead, it functions as a level 2 driver assistance system that still requires human oversight<\/strong>. Presently, the FSD features are not operational in France, meaning buyers are unable to utilize the software they have purchased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, the French investigation highlighted chaotic practices in Tesla&#8217;s vehicle ordering and delivery processes. Issues ranged from incomplete sales contracts to rapidly changing delivery dates and locations, leaving many customers frustrated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mismanagement of refunds for reservation fees was also cited as a significant concern, as previous assurances of full refunds have not always been honored in a timely manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tesla FSD Supervised flawlessly operating in: <br><br>\u2022 Italy<br>\u2022 France <br>\u2022 Netherlands <br>\u2022 Germany <br><br>What are European Regulators waiting for? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nzkSHZYKsX\">pic.twitter.com\/nzkSHZYKsX<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Nic Cruz Patane (@niccruzpatane) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/niccruzpatane\/status\/1936075866783485977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 20, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The company\u2019s controversial CEO, Elon Musk, is further complicating matters<\/strong>, facing lawsuits from French Tesla owners seeking to exit their leases, allegedly due to Musk&#8217;s polarizing public statements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With steadily declining sales in France, Tesla\u2019s financial viability in the region could be strained further by the imposed fines. <strong>Given that the average selling price of a Tesla in the country is around $60,000 at a mere 2% profit margin<\/strong>, these fines could effectively erase any profit Tesla hopes to gain from sales in France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French Ministry of the Economy has delivered a substantial blow to Tesla, ordering the company to comply with local laws regarding deceptive business practices within four months or face hefty fines. If Tesla fails to meet this directive, it will incur daily penalties of \u20ac50,000 (approximately $58,000). The ministry&#8217;s investigation, prompted by customer complaints &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/tesla-faces-e50000-daily-fines-for-deceptive-practices-in-france\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tesla Faces \u20ac50,000 Daily Fines for Deceptive Practices in France&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9265,"featured_media":295401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[8319,1471],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6849],"class_list":["post-339212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ev","tag-tesla","content-category-lifestyle"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339213,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339212\/revisions\/339213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339212"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=339212"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=339212"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=339212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}