Leave it to Tesla to charge its customers for a feature it purposely left out. The company is now selling an almost $350 retrofit turn signal stalk for its Model 3 cars after removing from the initial model. Instead, it used buttons to activate the turn signal.
As of now, the add-on is only available in the Chinese market. But, Model 3 drivers will need to shell out another 2,499 yuan ($348) to get a normal part of almost every car. However, there’s a slight catch: The turn signal stalk is only compatible with models produced from February 7 of this year onward.
Only one month earlier, Tesla launched a refreshed Model Y that brought back the turn signal stalk. “We always say at Tesla, if you aren’t deleting so much that you have to put something back, you have’t deleted enough. Well, maybe we deleted too much,” Tesla’s vice president of engineering Lars Moravy said in an interview with Jay Leno shortly after.
The option to buy a retrofit signal stalk isn’t that surprising. Creator Chris Zheng first leaked the news back in February on X (formerly Twitter). It’s unclear whether Tesla plans to bring the add-on to additional markets.
