They accuse Mercedes of dismantling a Tesla Model X for rent. It is quite common for car manufacturers to buy vehicles from their competitors to examine them and perform reverse engineering as part of their R & D work. It is a type of industrial espionage commonly accepted that consists of dissecting the cars of the rivals to study and analyze its technology and, in the last case, to copy it or to apply it in its own models. Well, according to has discovered the German publication 'Spiegel', Mercedes-Benz would have used a particularly strange and suspicious system to rummage through the entrails of the Tesla Model X.

As it has published the largest weekly magazine in Europe, instead of buying a model of the Tesla electric SUV to scrutinize inside, the manufacturer German rented one of a Bavarian couple through the car rental company Sixt.The Mercedes EQC, in 2019The goal of Mercedes, according to 'Spiegel' and other means that have echoed the news, would gather useful information for the development of its own all-electric SUV, the Mercedes EQC, which will hit the market in 2019. According to 'Spiegel', the original owners of the Tesla Model X They went on vacation for a few weeks and decided to give their electric SUV to the German car rental company Sixt, which in turn rented it to Daimler, the parent company of Mercedes-Benz. Without the knowledge and, of course, without The express authorization of the owners of the car, Mercedes proceeded to thoroughly test the Tesla Model X and then dismantled it before rebuilding it again and returning it to Sixt, according to the version of 'Spiegel'. "A couple lent their Tesla to the company. Car rental Sixt. The car came back damaged, apparently after extreme tests of the Daimler Group ", says 'Spiegel', the most important weekly in Germany. (The Mercedes EQC that will hit the market in 2019) According to the German publication, Sixt accuses Mercedes of having put Model X on its test circuit in Sindelfingen, near Stuttgart, and subject it to heat and vibration tests According to Sixt reports, they would also have covered more than 1,200 kilometers to Barcelona with Tesla's electric scooter. Sixt maintains that this The type of use flagrantly violates their rental policy and, although they allegedly compensated the owners of the car, they say that Daimler should pay for the damage suffered in the vehicle, which they estimate is "five digits".

Mercedes Benz destroys a Tesla just to see how it works. The war for hegemony in electric cars has reached a point that for many would seem ridiculous or at least that has made it look like the German giant Mercedes Benz. The brand of the three-pointed star rented, according to the media Spiegel and Jalopnik published a Tesla Model X to the German company Sixt and caused damages worth $ 15,800.

After seven weeks of rental, the original owners, Monika Kindlein and Manfred van Rinsum, have made known the terrible damage their vehicle suffered, only because those from Stuttgart wanted to see the Tesla's operation first-hand. The car was assembled and disassembled completely several times, in addition to being subjected to several tests, some of them extreme, which caused the fury of the owners, who were already compensated with the value of the damages and another two thousand dollars for the depreciation of the vehicle.

Despite this the owners describe as absurd the use that was given to their car, so they are asking Mercedes Benz to pay them about 100 thousand dollars of compensation or a new car.
From préteritos times, it is quite usual in the automotive industry the acquisition of models of the competition to disassemble them completely and to know the technologies with which they have, solutions and finishes in detail. At other times, they simply buy a series of units to use as rivals to beat the circuit, and they also get caught, as was the case with Honda with the Porsche 911.

And practically none are spared. To beat your rival, to be better of him, you have to know him in depth. What is no longer so comfortable is when they get caught in the dough performing this type of operation, as has been the case of Daimler, which through its Mercedes brand rented a Tesla Model X for a period of seven weeks. Dismantle it - obviously, without the knowledge of the other party - and be able to analyze it in detail.

Specifically, the rent would have been made to the Sixt company, but to add even more action to the plot, it turns out that the vehicle also belonged to a private individual. But ... why rent it and not buy it, being able to analyze it in a much more detailed way? Very easy. There are long waiting lists to be done with a Tesla Model X.

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