Federal prosecutors are looking into Tesla performance claims after Reuters reported the electric carmaker exaggerated the potential driving distance of its vehicles, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday .
The Austin, Texas-based electric carmaker deployed the team because its service centres were inundated with appointments from owners who had expected better performance based on the company’s advertised estimates and the projections displayed by the in-dash range metres of the cars themselves, according to several people familiar with the matter.
The US Attorney's office in Manhattan also is investigating Tesla's use of company funds on a secret project described internally as a house for Chief Executive Elon Musk, the Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. A spokesperson for the federal prosecutors' office declined to comment on the Journal report on the probes.No dollar figures were disclosed regarding the probe of the house, which the newspaper said was near Austin, Texas.