Tesla has changed what you get for talking a friend into a Tesla in the US. Until this week, if someone bought a Model 3, Model Y or eligible Cybertruck through your referral link, you'd get a US$250 Tesla credit. Now the reward is tied to Full Self-Driving (Supervised) instead.

File photo of a Tesla Model Y in the Washington DC area, 2025. Photo: OWS Photography / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0), cropped