Cybertruck owners have discovered that a part of these stainless steel electric vehicles could “stop producing torque” while driving. The failure was noted by Tesla in a recall from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on November 5. Any sudden loss of propulsion could “increase the risk of collision,” the notice ominously added. The latest recall (the sixth this year) requires time in the shop, not an over-the-air (OTA) update (over-the-air).
The reports on the instantaneous loss of electrical power Due to the failure of inverters (devices that convert direct current to alternating current and control the speed and torque of an electric vehicle’s motor) may alarm the average electric vehicle driver, but for extroverted buyers of Elon’s flagship Musk, is proof of the aggressiveness of this angular truck, Ivan Drury, information director of the Edmunds car buying guide, explained to WIRED.
And what does it matter?
“People who are attracted to [el Cybertruck] It doesn’t have build quality or safety in mind,” he says, “and the fact that it can be a dangerous vehicle to drive is the key to its appeal. “No one is going to buy it to use as a real truck.”
Pressing the accelerator pedals of the affected Cybertrucks could take their drivers nowhere (a negative point, one might think, for a vehicle that is supposedly faster from 0 to 100 km/h than a Lamborghini Aventador (but, adds Hawaii-based Drury, that won’t hurt the truck’s reputation among many aspiring owners.
“The more the press and others say it’s bad, the more they will see it as good.” [los clientes típicos del Cybertruck]”says Drury.
Named on the internet as Cyberbrickthe vehicle was launched in December 2023; Apparently, Tesla had already sold 27,000 of them in October this year, as can be deduced from the number of Cybertrucks that appear in the fifth recall. Some 2,431 Cybertrucks were affected by the sixth recall, which forced the vehicle to be abandoned so that new ‘variable frequency drives’ could be installed.
The recalled drives, equipped with potentially defective metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors, were installed in Cybertrucks manufactured between November of last year and the end of July of this year.
“Karl Brauer, executive analyst at car rating service iSeeCars, tells WIRED that “it is common for new models to see an increase in recalls during the first year after their launch, but what is interesting is to see how quickly this decreases. the number of recalls after launch and how quickly it continues over the years.
And in this regard, the Cybertruck may be lacking: “Vehicles with ongoing recalls long after launch suggest much higher lifetime recall totals,” Brauer explains. Calculate that the six Cybertruck recalls to date are “worse than 91%” of other 2024 vehicles. All of this was possibly foreshadowed in 2023, when a leaked Tesla report showed that the Cybertruck had basic design flaws.
Looks matter
“We don’t feel comfortable making predictions [de retiradas de por vida] on the Cybertruck at this very early stage,” Brauer emphasizes, “but so far it is not doing very well.
Edmunds’ Drury thinks most Cybertruck buyers barely pay attention to longevity estimates, and many of them probably don’t care about product recalls, OTA or otherwise. “Cybertruck customers do it for the looks, they don’t care how many times it will be called for service in 30 years,” says Drury, “they buy this car for now, without thinking about the future.”
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