Tesla is recalling much than 376,000 of its Model 3 and Model Y electrical vehicles successful the U.S. implicit a imaginable powerfulness steering issue.
The recalled Model 3s and Model Ys could look a nonaccomplishment of powerfulness steering assistance "when the conveyance reaches a halt and past accelerates again" if they acquisition an "overstress condition" successful the printed circuit committee for physics power-assisted steering (EPAS), Tesla said successful a recall report submitted past week to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
All the perchance affected vehicles diagnostic EPAS and utilized a bundle merchandise anterior to 2023.38.4, the study said. They beryllium to the exemplary twelvemonth 2023.
"A nonaccomplishment of powerfulness steering assistance tin necessitate greater steering effort, particularly astatine debased speeds, expanding the hazard of a crash," NHTSA said.
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Tesla said it designed the vehicles successful a mode that steering "will not beryllium affected" if they endure the "overstress condition" portion driving supra 0 miles per hour.
"Tesla’s plan avoids immoderate unreasonable hazard to information by preventing a nonaccomplishment of EPAS portion the conveyance is successful motion," the automaker said on its website. "In addition, Tesla does not judge that nonaccomplishment of EPAS erstwhile the conveyance reaches 0 mph is an unreasonable hazard to information due to the fact that manual steering remains available."
Tesla said it decided to recall the affected vehicles successful each markets to "avoid disorder for our customers" aft a "determination by regulator successful a non-US marketplace that nonaccomplishment of EPAS astatine 0 mph should beryllium remedied done a recall."
The automaker started deploying a escaped over-the-air bundle hole to code the contented that could origin the "overstress condition" successful the printed circuit committee successful October 2023. It said successful the study that 99% of U.S. affected Model 3 and Model Y cars had already received bundle merchandise 2023.38.4 oregon aboriginal arsenic of Jan. 23 of this year.
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The occupation has not caused immoderate known injuries, deaths oregon crashes.
Owners of the recalled EVs volition not request to instrumentality their conveyance to a dealership, according to the report. They tin expect to person notification astir the callback successful the message precocious adjacent month.
Tesla besides applied the bundle remedy to vehicles successful production starting successful October 2023. The recalled Model 3 and Model Y vehicles were built betwixt precocious February 2023 and Oct. 11 of that year, according to the report.
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