New Tesla Model 3 automobiles on a truck at a logistics drop zone in Seattle, Washington, on Aug. 22, 2024.
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Tesla is voluntarily recalling about 239,000 of its electrical automobiles within the U.S. to repair a difficulty that may trigger its rearview cameras to fail, the corporate disclosed in filings posted Friday to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s web site.
“A rearview digital camera that doesn’t show a picture reduces the driving force’s rear view, growing the chance of a crash,” Tesla wrote in a letter to the regulator. The recall applies to Tesla’s 2024-2025 Model 3 and Model S sedans, and to its 2023-2025 Model X and Model Y SUVs.
The firm additionally mentioned within the acknowledgement letter that it has already “launched an over-the-air (OTA) software program replace, freed from cost” that may repair a few of the automobiles’ digital camera points.
In 2024, Tesla issued 16 remembers within the U.S. that utilized to five.14 million of its EVs, in line with NHTSA data. The recall treatments included a mixture of over-the-air software program updates and elements replacements. More than 40% of final 12 months’s remembers pertained to points with the most recent automobile within the firm’s lineup, the Cybertruck, an angular metal pickup that Tesla started delivering to prospects in late 2023.
Regarding the newest recall, the corporate mentioned it had acquired 887 guarantee claims and dozens of area experiences however advised the NHTSA that it was not conscious of any injurious, deadly or different collisions ensuing from the rearview digital camera failures.
Other prospects with automobiles that “skilled a circuit board failure or stress that will result in a circuit board failure,” which trigger the backup digital camera failures, can have their automobiles’ computer systems changed by Tesla, freed from cost, the corporate mentioned.
Tesla didn’t instantly reply to CNBC’s request for remark.
