The Model S and X Removal, Applied to the UK Line-Up

In March 2026, weeks after the Refer and Earn terms were revised on 24 February, Model S and Model X were removed from the referral programme. Applied to what a UK buyer can actually order, the eligible list is now short.

The UK line-up after the change

Eligible: Model 3 and Model Y, each attaching approximately 650 miles of free Supercharging on a new order. Not eligible: Model S and Model X. Not orderable in the UK at all: Cybertruck, whose trim-level eligibility elsewhere — Premium AWD and Cyberbeast in, Dual Motor AWD out — is academic here.

Why the Cybertruck detail is recorded anyway

Because it establishes that Tesla excludes individual trims inside an otherwise eligible family. That is the reason family-level reasoning about a new Model Y variant is an expectation rather than a fact, and the reason this desk points readers at an order screen rather than at its own table.

The failure this creates

A valid referral link applied to an ineligible car. The link functions, the order completes, and no benefit is granted to either party, with no warning anywhere in the flow. Since a referral cannot be attached after an order is placed, the only moment this is visible is the order summary before payment — where the benefit line is simply absent.

Who it affects most in the UK

Buyers who need a third row and were cross-shopping a Model X: that configuration now carries no referral benefit at any price, while a six-seat Model Y variant sits inside an eligible family. And readers of the large volume of still-published UK content written before March 2026, on which Model S and Model X appear as eligible.

What a removal does to previously accurate pages

It strands them. A page written in 2025 listing Model S and Model X as referral-eligible was accurate at publication and is wrong now, and nothing in its presentation signals the change: the prose is confident, the models still exist, and the programme still exists. This is the specific reason this site attaches dates to claims rather than to templates — a reader needs to know when a statement was last checked, not when a page was last rendered.

The route question that sits alongside eligibility

An inventory car is a new order placed from a listing: the mechanism applies, with a higher risk of the link being lost because the flow is shorter. A used car, whether private or Tesla-sold, is not a new order and should be treated as carrying no referral. A lease or company-car order placed by a third party attaches to that party's order or to nothing.

The sequence of the two changes, for the record

The terms revision is dated 24 February 2026 and the model removal followed in March 2026. Recording the order matters because the two are frequently reported as a single event, which obscures what each did: the revision reset the rulebook's date without necessarily changing the eligible list, and the removal changed the list. A reader checking whether a page predates the current position needs both dates rather than one.

How to verify

Configure the exact car through a referral link and read the order summary before paying. Published lists age; that screen does not. Programme terms are on the Tesla UK Refer and Earn page.