US & Canada edition
A fact-checked broadsheet for Tesla referral codes · Program verified July 13, 2026 · Independent · Not affiliated with Tesla, Inc.
The newswire
Stories with a dateline: what changed in the Tesla referral program, in ordering, and in the US and Canadian incentives around it — each one sourced and signed.
The front-page changelog records what the referral program does today. The wire is where the individual stories live — a program update, an incentive deadline, a launch that changes the maths on an order — written when they happen and dated so you can see how old they are.
Five dated changes in eight months. An editorial change-log is the only honest way to publish a programme that moves this often.
The trial is denominated in months. Its cash value is therefore a price history question, and the history has two tiers.
480,126 deliveries against a cap of ten per referrer per year. The two numbers are counted in different units.
A dated launch log, and the eligibility question every new variant raises but no launch page answers.
One benefit, two prices, and a group of owners for whom every published referral figure is double what they actually save.
Network numbers are infrastructure news everywhere except in a market where the referral reward is measured in kilometres.
Most software news is not referral news. Two items from these releases genuinely are, and it is worth being precise about which.
Six trim prices, one range figure that used to be mid-tier, and three deletions the price tables never mention. Corrected and dated.
Record deliveries, a missed profit line, and a cash-flow reversal of about $2.5bn in a single quarter. Read carefully, because it tells you less than it looks like it does.
The zero-percent financing that helped drive Q2 sales is gone, and Model 3 rates went up alongside it. The referral trial is unaffected — here's why.
Standard at $41,630 all-in, Premium at $45,990, the three-row Model Y L at $61,990. None of it changes when a referral link needs to be open.
Austin, the Bay Area, Dallas, Houston and now Miami. It's a real signal on Tesla's FSD stack — and a good moment to be clear about what your referral code is not.
One 2026 guide states $500 in Tesla Credits per referral. Electrek and our own current-status page say $250. Here's exactly how to check which one holds up.
Some Cybertruck guides still describe a bundled FSD-plus-free-Supercharging package. It's gone. Here's what a Cybertruck buyer — with or without a referral — actually gets today.
We deliberately didn't print specifics on this deduction before. The IRS paperwork is public now, so here's the correction, with real thresholds and a VIN rule.
$400 off from opening a referral link, $500 back per Powerwall 3 unit — two different programs, two different mechanisms. Here's how they stack on one order.
Premium trims went up $1,000, Performance by $500. Entry trims didn't move. Here's what that shifts for a buyer using a referral link.
Dated stories we filed before the wire had its own desk. They stay where they were published, in the desk notes: