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Title: Tesla offers a $350 retrofit turn signal stalk after removing it from
the Model 3

Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2025 12:30:34 +0000
Link: https://www.engadget.com/transportation/evs/t...

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 arenΓÇÖt deleting so
much that you have to put something back, you haveΓÇÖt 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.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at
https://www.engadget.com/transportation/evs/t...
signal-stalk-after-removing-it-from-the-model-3-123034169.html?src=rss

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