¿No habrá Teslas nuevos en California durante 30 días?
The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has delayed the implementation of a sales ban by 60 days, according to its own statement, to allow Tesla to make the necessary changes. If Tesla fails to implement these changes, the authority has warned that its dealer licence will be suspended for 30 days.
Tesla North America responded in a post on X, stating: “This was a ‘consumer protection’ order about the use of the term ‘Autopilot’ in a case where not one single customer came forward to say there’s a problem. Sales in California will continue uninterrupted.”
This is not the first conflict surrounding Tesla’s use and marketing of the terms ‘Autopilot’ and ‘Full Self-Driving.’ Critics argue that both terms suggest the systems can fully and autonomously control the vehicle. However, Tesla’s terms of use clarify that these are merely driver-assistance systems—and that the driver remains responsible. The DMV states that since the authority initiated proceedings, Tesla has stopped using the allegedly misleading term ‘Full Self-Driving’ and now correctly refers to it as ‘Full Self-Driving (Supervised),’ thereby clarifying that the system must be monitored at all times.
The situation differs for Tesla’s robotaxi service (including in Austin) y el test drives currently offered by Tesla in Europe. At the ‘FSD Unsupervised’ level, the vehicle can indeed drive autonomously. However, this developmental stage is not yet available to customers in Europe—or in California—otherwise, the legal proceedings surrounding the terminology would likely not have arisen.
A sales ban in California could have a significant impact on Tesla. According to various media reports citing a dealers’ association, nearly 135,500 Teslas were sold in California in the first nine months of 2025. California remains a major market for electric vehicles in the USA. However, following the end of the US tax credit, EV sales in the country have recently plummeted—though less sharply for Tesla than for other manufacturers. Given the current downturn in the EV market, a one-month sales ban would likely have a lesser impact now than it would have in September, when many EVs were still being sold in the final weeks of the tax credit.
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