Tesla has issued a recall for 1.8 million vehicles in america, one of many largest remembers within the firm’s historical past.
The problem has to do with the vehicles’ software program failing to detect an unlatched hood, Reuters reported on Tuesday. In line with the Nationwide Freeway Visitors Security Administration (NHTSA), an unlatched hood can “totally open and impede the driving force’s view and growing the chance of a crash.”
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The recall impacts some 2021-2024 Mannequin 3, Mannequin S, and Mannequin X vehicles, in addition to 2020-2024 Mannequin Y automobiles. The full variety of automobiles which are doubtlessly affected is 1,849,648.
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Fortuitously for Tesla and Tesla automotive homeowners, that is a kind of remembers which may be mounted through an over-the-air software program replace, and Tesla has already began rolling out a repair. The corporate additionally issued a smaller recall for the same difficulty earlier in July.
Tesla’s listing of remembers is rising lengthy. Whereas most points have been mounted with a software program replace, some, just like the current recall of almost all Cybertrucks over a windshield wiper difficulty, did require homeowners to go to a Tesla service heart.
The most recent recall impacts the vast majority of Tesla vehicles on the highway, but it surely’s not as massive because the recall from final December, which affected greater than 2 million Teslas, which was mainly all of them on the time.
Tesla retains an official, although oddly sparse, listing of remembers affecting its automobiles on its web site.