A Scottish couple has been confronted with a £17,374 (A$33,370) bill after their Tesla Model Y wouldn't start after a night out.

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  • ANGRY_MAPLEEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Were the currencies the same? In CAD it would read like something similar to $28,961.42.

    • Toes♀@ani.socialEnglish
      61·
      1 year ago

      All the posts keep using the $ symbol. But I bet that’s exactly what’s going wrong.

      • CmdrShepard@lemmy.oneEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Earlier it was listed at 17k Euro which is only $18k USD or $28k AUD. Somehow it does keep rising.

        • shunir@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          From the article.

          A Scottish couple has been confronted with a £17,374 (A$33,370) bill after their Tesla Model Y wouldn’t start after a night out.

          • CmdrShepard@lemmy.oneEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Them exchange rates be crazy. I wonder if it really fluctuated $5k between the time of the article and when I looked it up yesterday.

      • ANGRY_MAPLEEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        That’s why I mentioned it, it gets me sometimes lol