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Tesla vegan leather. Reduces price makes seats more durable good vinyl will outlast leather easier to clean. September 4 2019 Tesla Goes Vegan. At the time the stockholders voted against this proposition but in the subsequent few years discussions continued and in 2017 and 2019 the group started to see successful results.

The electric car manufacturer first proposed offering vegan leather seating at a shareholder meeting in 2015. Back in 2015 at a Tesla stockholders meeting animal rights pressure group PETA started lobbying Tesla to make their cars vegan by ridding them of all animal-based leather in the cars interior. Teslas Model Y and Model 3 electric cars are set to be fully vegan by 2020.

Tesla has always offered standard cloth seating which is a vegan option but peta began pressuring the automaker at a 2015 stockholders meeting to drop leather seats entirely by 2019. PETA has been pressuring Tesla to offer vegan interiors for a few years now. On Saturday Tesla announced that the Model 3 is now totally free of leather including the steering wheel.

A years-long shareholder-led push to drive Tesla away from leather luxury is getting closer to reality. The Model 3 Will Now Be 100 Leather-Free The company announced that it will use premium synthetic-leather upholstery for the cars interior including. Overnight Tesla made some changes to their available options making some options standard and notably eliminating one thing.

The fabric supplier for Teslas vegan leather is. It should be vinyl based material so a special kind of plastic. The vegan Model 3 with a luxurious durable leather-free interior debuted to a torrent of media.

Tesla has confirmed to PETA that it will replace the animal-derived leather that it currently uses for steering wheels in its Model 3 vehicles with a luxurious durable vegan material. Community members on Tesla Motors Club a popular forum for Tesla owners say the upholstery on their seats is not up to par. For any buyers who are worried about this because they traditionally prefer leather seats Teslas vegan.