Tesla is secretly recalling Cybertruck batteries
Tesla is secretly recalling Cybertruck batteries
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Something interesting has been going on with Tesla Cybertrucks. Tesla has been quietly replacing their battery packs, seemingly a lot of them. At least since September, Tesla has been swapping out Cybertruck bat...
Summary
Tesla has been quietly replacing battery packs in Cybertrucks due to issues with "side-dented cells" causing potential battery core collapse.
Reports date back to September 2024, with owners learning of battery replacements during unrelated service visits.
Tesla describes the replacements as proactive but has not issued an official recall, raising questions about transparency and regulatory compliance.
Critics suggest Tesla’s approach avoids negative press and high costs.
Concerns persist about the scope of the issue, potential safety risks, and Tesla’s lack of formal communication with owners or regulatory bodies.
Interesting that this comes to light after what happened in Las Vegas..
Only a few weeks of stalling to go until they can definitively announce that there are no problems with cybertrucks, the patriotic car exploded due to terrorism, and BYD was the responsible party so EV tariffs are getting doubled.
It's already well known that the Cybertruck that exploded in Las Vegas was loaded with fireworks and cans of camp fuel. Whether it was "terrorism" or not is still an open question (and it's such a wildly overused term these days that it'll likely be a useless answer) but I think blaming it on the battery is likely jumping to a poor conclusion.
Well, actually, the article is from 4 days ago, so prior to that incident not after.
How do you prevent someone making a bomb out of gas cans and pyrotechnics by replacing batteries ... ? Those weren't even affected by the explosion/fire.
As musk commented, you don't have to worry about those fires as cyber truck will direct them upwards.
And lock the doors.
With you inside.
And apparently, Kekius Maximus is the only one to be able to open the doors.
They'll still blame someone for it instead of accept the responsibility for it.
Didn’t you hear?
It’s now possibly an act of terrorism.🙄
If he had known before, he probably wouldn't have stored camp fuel and fireworks.
There has been a steady stream of "Cybertruck sucks!" Articles and comments being posted since Cybertruck was revealed, so it's actually not all that interesting IMO. Blow up a Cybertruck at any time and there'll likely be some other "Cybertruck sucks!" Thing going on at the simultaneously.
Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis have had electric car recalls over the past couple of years too, I haven't seen a peep about those.
Bet you president musk will make recalls optional to arbitration. “You can spend millions on a recall, or just hundreds of thousands on quietly paying off your vict, er, customers”
"Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, and multiply it by the probable rate of failure, B, then multiply the result by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one."
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I could totally see Tesla realizing some part needed a recall and not wanting the poor publicity, so they tell it to randomly display a message saying "possible error in <some part>, please see your dealer". And then when the user comes in, they stealthily fix the part without telling anyone.