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Tesla Accused of Inflating Odometer Numbers to Avoid Repair Payouts

Tesla Accused of Inflating Odometer Numbers to Avoid Repair Payouts

PCMag
Tesla's basic warranty is active for four years or 50,000 miles. In a new class-action suit, one driver says his Tesla inflated miles driven by 117% over what he actually drove.

Tesla is inflating odometer numbers to avoid paying for under-warranty repairs, according to a class-action lawsuit filed in California.

Plaintiff Nyree Hinton argues that odometers rely on "predictive algorithms, energy consumption metrics, and driver behavior multipliers that manipulate and misrepresent the actual miles traveled,"