Tesla has asked the owners of about 46,000 Cybertrucks, most of those sold until February, to take them to an official review workshop to correct the nth problem that the model suffers since it went on sale. On this occasion it is its characteristic steel panels that make up its body, which can detach themselves while the vehicle is moving.
“The external coating panel can detach itself while driving. A detached panel can become a danger on the road, increasing the risk of accident,” reports the National Agency for American Road Safety (NHTS). It is an error that the owners had documented in social networks, showing the steel panels detached from the chassis of the vehicle and denouncing that these are stuck, not soldiers or screwed, which would go against the aesthetics of straight lines that Elon Musk sought for this model.
It is the ninth time that the NHTS collects an official call to workshops for Cybertruck. Some were also related to the body, such as loose moldings in the trunk drawer that could detach and represent a danger to drivers that circulate after the vehicle, but also with failures in the windshield wiper, the lights or even the accelerator pedal, which could get stuck and “cause the vehicle to be involuntarily accelerated, increasing the risk of accident,” the agency reflected in April in April 2024.
The Cybertruck, a personal bet of Elon Musk, has become a headache for Tesla. The model suffered constant delays due to problems with the design, materials and manufacturing, derived from the obstacles to produce a vehicle with the lines and characteristics that the owner of Tesla intended. After going on sale at the end of 2023, the electric truck has not been a success in sales: about 50,000 units have been sold, well below the 125,000 that Tesla had manufactured annually in its early years.
The new body failures arrive at one of the most difficult moments for the Musk company. The 2024 last quarter accounts were one of the worst in their history and The trend has continued this 2025 With sales falls greater than 70% in Germany, 40% in France or 30% in China or California. Musk has recognized that 2025 “will be a key year for Tesla” and has called investors to trust their products of the future, such as Robotaxi and an autonomous android, which hopes for sale in the coming years.
However, the increase in competition in the electric car market is taking its toll to the company. This same week, their shares collapsed 10% after the Chinese brand byd announced that it has developed a fast charging engine that gives about 400 kilometers of autonomy in five minutes. According to the company, it has already successfully integrated it in two of its vehicles, although it has not yet been verified external.
The attacks that are suffering from its facilities in the US for the role of Musk at the head of the Government Efficiency Department (Doge) are joined to the economic problems of Tesla. Several dealers have been burned with Molotov and shooting cocktails. Donald Trump has warned that these attacks will be pursued as “domestic terrorism” while the billionaire denounces a black hand: “I thought that the Democrats were the party of empathy and concern for others, but they are burning cars, attacking concessionaires with incendiary bombs, shooting and destroying teslas,” he said in Fox News.
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