What do we know about Tesla’s (virtual) recall?
Recall of nearly 1.1 million US Tesla vehicles due to a malfunction of the automatic window reversing system, which could cause injury to driver and passenger. Meanwhile, its main rival, signed by Toyota, will make its debut in China
What Happens to Tesla?
We had left Tesla, the electric car giant led by Elon Musk , struggling with none other than a class action of frenzied users for the low performance of the autopilot: the artificial intelligence driving according to the owners would not be so intelligent; but the technical problems for the manufacturer do not seem to have ended: in fact, it would have carried out a virtual recall (we will see in detail what it is about) of almost 1.1 million vehicles – an important part of the production of the now Texan brand -, due to a malfunction of the automatic window reversing system which, according to Reuters , may not react correctly after detecting an obstacle, thus increasing the risk of injury. In short, the most distracted passengers could find their fingers crushed.
THE TECHNICAL DEFECTS BEHIND THE CALL OF THE TESLA
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ( Nhtsa ), the US federal agency for road safety, explained that a window that closes without an adequate automatic stop and reverse system in the event of an obstacle in their travel could exert excessive force on the driver. and passengers thus increasing the risk of injury. Hence the need to intervene quickly because, the US federal body motivated, the Tesla vehicles under investigation did not comply with the requirements of the safety standard for electric windows.
The American company said it was not aware of any warranty claims, reports, accidents, injuries or deaths related to the recall, however it admitted that, during tests carried out in August, the technicians had identified anomalies on the automatic reversing system. of the windows and that Tesla itself had already determined that the performance of the automatic window reversal system did not meet the requirements of the standard. The company said that as of September 13, vehicles in production and pre-delivery have received a software update that sets the operation of the power windows and automatic reversing system to comply with the requirements of the standard.
MODELS AFFECTED BY THE TESLA RECALL
The high technology of the vehicle should allow the company to proceed without "physical" recalls and workshop steps, as usually happens in these cases when manufacturers discover important defects on cars already on the market: it should be sufficient to release a patch, such as happens with PCs, smartphones and software to fix a bug. Tesla has in fact communicated to Nhtsa, the American security agency, that it will carry out an update via Ota (software over-the-air) of the automatic window reversal system. The recall affects U.S. units of Model 3 2017-2022, Model Y 2020-2021 and Model S and Model X 2021-2022.
WITH THE CRISIS, FILLING A FILL OF ELECTRICITY IS NOT SO CONVENIENT
But what could worry Tesla owners, more than the recall itself (the letters to warn the owners will be sent from November 15) will be the fact that the brand has raised the price of recharges to Superchargers, the proprietary columns, from unmistakable red and white colors, which ensure fast and reliable charging. These are the stations that have red and white columns: they will be affected by an increase in tariffs that will bring them to € 0.66 / kWh, 16 cents more than before. An increase that, already reported by several users on social networks , does not allow to save anything compared to gasoline.
THE ELECTRIC RIVAL DEBUTS IN CHINA
Meanwhile, in China, a crucial country in Tesla's strategy, the Toyota bZ3 electric sedan will also land (if you remember, a few weeks ago even the Japanese company declared that it had to recall 2,700 of its first electric vehicles bZ4X, in that case because there is the risk of the wheels coming off ), direct competitor of Tesla Model 3. It should use the Blade batteries developed by BYD: let's not forget that Toyota, in the past, had created a joint venture with the Chinese company for the research and development of batteries for electric cars to be launched on the Chinese market.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/smartcity/cosa-sappiamo-sul-richiamo-virtuale-di-tesla/ on Fri, 23 Sep 2022 13:54:40 +0000.