Tesla is now promoting retrofit flip sign stalks for Mannequin 3 automobiles within the US, after having deleted the stalks in its replace of the Mannequin 3. At first, they had been solely out there in China for sure vehicles, for the equal of ~$350. Now they’re out there within the US, however for $595 as an alternative.
In August, Tesla up to date its China web site with a brand new accent: flip sign stalks. This led to hypothesis as to when or if the product would possibly make it to the US, and in the present day, it has.
That sounds just like the setup for a joke (ha ha, these Tesla drivers by no means utilizing their sign, am I proper?!?! (…. I’m a Tesla driver and I all the time use my alerts, get off it everybody)), however for many who are out of the loop, it’s really an answer to a self-inflicted drawback by Tesla a number of years in the past.
The Tesla Mannequin 3 Highland refresh, launched in 2023, got here with various updates. The mannequin had been out for six years with out main modifications, and received fairly a slew of them together with higher sound dampening, a brand new entrance finish, a slower steering ratio (not a fan of this modification), ventilated seats, rear touchscreen, and so forth.
However one of many extra controversial modifications, throughout the numerous cost-cutting that Tesla did to supply these enhancements, was the deletion of the flip sign stalk.
Tesla had already been shifting on this path, with the introduction of a “yoke” wheel on the Mannequin S, which didn’t have stalks and used buttons on the wheel for flip alerts and the automobile touchscreen to vary gears.
However the deletion of the flip sign stalk, even on a automobile with a traditional steering wheel, was fairly controversial. Although some drivers have gotten used to utilizing the buttons on the steering wheel, or letting FSD sign for you when it decides to vary lanes, the comfort and familiarity of a flip sign stalk was nonetheless arduous to surrender for a lot of.
This all occurred in 2023, and Tesla received loads of flack for it, however didn’t relent for a while. Then, in January of 2025, Tesla launched the Mannequin Y Juniper refresh, with lots of the similar modifications that the Mannequin 3 had seen.
In that refresh, Tesla did change the steering wheel, together with eradicating the gear choice lever… but in addition introduced again the flip sign stalk. Purpose lastly dominated the day.
Quickly after that, an interview got here in February of 2025, the place Tesla’s head engineer Lars Moravy admitted “possibly we deleted an excessive amount of.”
And now, we’re lastly seeing the issue get rectified… first in China, however now it’s out there in North America, for $595. The set up consists of delivery and labor prices to put in the stalk, steering wheel, and column management module.
The stalks appear to be out there now. So if you wish to arrange your appointment, you may head over to Tesla’s web site, or discover the brand new merchandise in your Tesla app (which the web site will direct you to, anyway).
Curiously sufficient, the stalks are extra broadly out there in North America than in China. In China, solely automobiles that had been produced after February 7, 2025 qualify for the stalks, whereas within the US, it appears that evidently all non-stalk Mannequin 3s will qualify, as the web site states that any automobile produced in 2024 or 2025 can set up the retrofit. On condition that the Highland Mannequin 3 didn’t come out in North America till January 2024, that ought to imply all of them can get this stalk put in.
And going ahead, it appears like different Mannequin 3s will get the stalk too. Amongst all of the deletions of the “extra inexpensive” Commonplace Mannequin 3, it added one factor: a flip sign stalk. Presumably, different Mannequin 3s will get a stalk quickly, however for many who personal one from the final two years, this $595 retrofit is what you get.
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