New Tesla Model 3 lorries on a vehicle at a logistics go down area in Seattle, Washington, onAug 22, 2024.
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Tesla is willingly remembering around 239,000 of its electrical lorries in the united state to take care of a problem that can create its rearview video cameras to stop working, the business divulged in filings published Friday to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s site.
“A rearview camera that does not display an image reduces the driver’s rear view, increasing the risk of a crash,” Tesla composed in a letter to the regulatory authority. The remember puts on Tesla’s 2024-2025 Model 3 and Model S cars, and to its 2023-2025 Model X and Model Y SUVs.
The business likewise stated in the acknowledgement letter that it has currently “released an over-the-air (OTA) software update, free of charge” that can take care of a few of the lorries’ video camera problems.
In 2024, Tesla released 16 remembers in the united state that put on 5.14 countless its EVs, according toNHTSA data The remember treatments consisted of a mix of over-the-air software application updates and components substitutes. More than 40% of in 2014’s remembers related to problems with the most recent lorry in the business’s schedule, the Cybertruck, an angular steel pick-up that Tesla started supplying to consumers in late 2023.
Regarding the current recall, the business stated it had actually gotten 887 service warranty cases and loads of area records yet informed the NHTSA that it was not familiar with any type of harmful, deadly or various other accidents arising from the rearview video camera failings.
Other consumers with lorries that “experienced a circuit board failure or stress that may lead to a circuit board failure,” which create the back-up video camera failings, can have their lorries’ computer systems changed by Tesla, cost free, the business stated.
Tesla did not instantly react to’s ask for remark.
