A fine of 93 million, and Tesla with deep pockets was severely punished?

In China, the news that car companies are fined is not very common, but in foreign countries with strict supervision, car companies restricted by rules and regulations will accidentally touch the edge of the rules. Therefore, the news that foreign car companies have been fined has long been common.

Most of the reasons for fines are also caused by traditional car companies because of emission standards. For example, Volkswagen's emission gate was fined 6,543.8 billion euros, and Mercedes-Benz was fined 77.6 billion won for the emission gate. In comparison, the time for new energy car companies to be fined is very small, but Tesla is an exception. In recent years, all kinds of fines accompanied by negativity have emerged one after another.

Recently, according to foreign media reports, Tesla faced a fine of $654.38+04 million in Germany for failing to comply with the battery recycling tariff. According to German regulators, Tesla did not recycle the battery of its electric vehicle in an environmentally friendly way when its power battery reached its service life.

At the end of 10, Tesla announced the fine issued by the German Federal Environment Agency in a document submitted to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). According to the document, "The German Federal Environmental Protection Agency (UBA) issued a fine notice of 6.5438+0.2 million euros (US$ 6.5438+0.4 million) to our subsidiary in Germany, saying that we failed to comply with the relevant laws of the market and failed to fulfill the obligation of recycling scrapped battery products in accordance with the provisions of this law."

"This fine is mainly related to administrative requirements, but Tesla continues to recycle battery packs. Although we can't predict the outcome of this matter, including the final amount of any punishment, we have submitted an objection to this. It is expected that the fine will not have a significant adverse impact on our business. "

At present, Tesla's first factory in Europe has started. As Tesla's fourth super factory in the world, is the factory expected? 202 1? It was put into operation in. Will it be mainly used for production in the initial stage? Models? y？ How many models do you need to hire? 1.2? 10 thousand employees, about weekly output? 1? Ten thousand new cars.

For Tesla, whose factory construction has now entered a critical stage, if it does not bear this fine, it will face more restrictive troubles. However, at present, Tesla said that it did not recognize the German accusation and said that the fine came from administrative requirements.

The rise of Tesla, from 20 12 models? The release of s begins. Forget it. Although it was only eight years ago, Tesla faced more than one fine during these eight years. There have been several fines overseas, and the number is also large and small.

In 20 19, the U.S environmental protection agency said in a statement that after Tesla's factory in fremont, California was raided in 20 17, Tesla would take concrete measures to properly manage the hazardous waste in its factory. According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, the equipment emissions of Tesla factory failed to meet the air emission standards and hazardous waste management requirements.

Finally, according to the settlement reached with the US Environmental Protection Agency that its automobile factory violated the federal hazardous waste, Tesla will pay a fine of $365,438+$0,000 and provide emergency equipment worth at least $55,000 for the fire department in fremont, California.

In addition, in the same year, Tesla violated six labor laws in California because he didn't get permission to build a tent factory in the parking lot outside the factory in fremont, California, which eventually led to his humiliation? 29365? A fine of $.

The biggest fine that Tesla faced came from 20 18. As Tesla intends to withdraw from the market, it found a financing channel and repurchased all the shares at a price of $420 per share, and then Tesla's share price began to rise. Previously, because Tesla delayed the delivery of new models of electric vehicles? Investors who "short" Tesla shares also suffered losses.

According to the settlement agreement, elon musk, the head of Tesla Motors, reached a settlement on suspicion of "stock market fraud". The parties agreed to resign as chairman and retain the position of CEO, and he and Tesla paid a fine of 20 million US dollars respectively.

In addition, Tesla, which is committed to environmental protection, was also fined for pollution. 2065438+In March 2008, Tesla was fined 139500 yuan for exceeding the standard of air pollutants in its fremont factory. It is reported that from 20 13 to 20 16, the dust and nitrogen oxides emitted by several faulty equipment in this factory have been high.

In addition to being punished abroad, Tesla actually encountered a fine in China. On July 30, the national enterprise credit information publicity system showed that Tesla Motors (Beijing) Co., Ltd. added administrative penalty information, and the code name of the illegal act was 01010, with a fine of 50,000 yuan. Beijing Chaoyang District Market Supervision Administration made a decision on punishment.

Although the reason for the fine was not announced in the publicity system, it was inferred from the illegal act 0 10 10 1 that the cited contents such as advertising data, statistical data, survey results, abstracts, quotations, etc. were true and inaccurate, or the source was not indicated.

This is not the first time Tesla has been punished in China. As early as 2065438+September 2006, Tesla promoted "Model? X is by far the safest, fastest and most intelligent SUV sport utility vehicle ","model? X has adopted the largest panoramic windshield in the industry, which violates Item (3) of Article 9 of the Advertising Law of People's Republic of China (PRC).

At that time, Chaoyang Branch of Beijing Administration for Industry and Commerce made an administrative penalty decision on Tesla with a fine of 200,000 yuan. And according to the data, Tesla Motors (Beijing) Co., Ltd. is also involved in judicial proceedings? 17? , including sales contract disputes and product liability disputes.

About Tesla and fines, it is not limited to being punished. Tesla has another incredible news this year. In September this year, there were rumors on the Internet that "Tesla forbids employees to say the word leek" or "Tesla forbids eating leeks internally".

It is reported that Zhu Xiaotong, the head of Tesla Greater China, is quite concerned about the word "cutting leeks", so it is forbidden for internal employees to mention it. Those found will be fined 10 yuan once, and food containing "leek" will be prohibited from appearing in Shanghai Tesla Super Factory.

However, in the end, Tao Lin, global vice president of Tesla, denied the incident, claiming that "our canteen has jiaozi stuffed with leeks" and commented in related articles: It's really a new height of darkness.

Although it has been rumored, Tesla has a deep relationship with the word "leek" because it experienced official price adjustment events in 20 19 and 2020. Price fluctuations have hurt the interests of many old car owners, so many old car owners have been lambasted for "cutting leeks".

From the cases of various fancy fines in Tesla, it can be seen that the tolerance of various illegal acts abroad is much stricter than that in China, so both the frequency and the amount of fines abroad are far greater than that in China. Tesla's actions in China in recent years, although not greatly punished, have led to the decline of its brand position in the eyes of Chinese people.

This article comes from car home, the author of the car manufacturer, and does not represent car home's position.