Tesla Solar Lease Becomes Book of Enoch
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- A Tesla solar customer logged into their Tesla account this month to review their lease agreement and instead found the full text of the Book of Enoch, a roughly 2,000-year-old Hebrew apocalyptic text cut from most Bibles and best known for the Watchers — fallen angels who father a race of giants.
- Electrek independently confirmed the swap, reviewing a Tesla support chat in which a representative acknowledged the lease had become scripture but offered no real explanation for how a legally binding contract was overwritten.
- Tesla apologized and sent the correct lease by email, while speculating in the article that the mix-up could stem from an AI retrieval error, a mis-mapped document ID in the backend, or a human joke — the Book of Enoch is public domain on Project Gutenberg and the kind of text that could appear as a placeholder file.
- The solar lease at issue is a decade-long, legally binding agreement dictating payment terms and what happens if the homeowner sells the house, making it arguably the document Tesla should guard most carefully in customer accounts.
- Tesla brought solar leasing back in late 2025 after killing its solar subscription in 2021, and the document swap lands as the company tries to rebuild its home solar business.
- Tesla has a pattern of loose customer-document control: the company recently retroactively edited FSD contracts inside owners' accounts by inserting "supervised" into agreements signed years earlier, reinforcing concerns that the supposed source of truth for what a customer agreed to is editable.
Why it matters: A decade-long solar lease governs what a homeowner owes and is critical paperwork when selling the house. If Tesla's account system can silently replace one customer's signed contract with random text — and Tesla recently edited FSD contracts after the fact too — homeowners lose a reliable record of what they actually agreed to, right as Tesla is courting them back into solar leases.
