Tesla Semi
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Tesla has issued a voluntary recall on the Semi, a primary because the firm began deliveries of the heavy-duty electrical vans to prospects in December 2022.
In response to recall filings posted on the web site of the Nationwide Freeway Visitors Security Administration, 35 Semi vans have been affected. The vans have been constructed with an digital parking brake valve module discovered to comprise a defect by provider Bendix in February 2023.
The defect left drivers susceptible to “rollaway” incidents and elevated the chance of a crash. In response to a recall discover, the faulty modules could “fail to maneuver into the park place when the parking brake is activated” leaving drivers unaware their Semi might roll away. The parking brake part defect has not resulted in a crash or any damages, in accordance with the filings.
Whereas Tesla confirmed off the design of the Semi in late 2017, it solely started producing the vans in Nevada final yr and commenced deliveries to early buyer Pepsi at a advertising and marketing occasion late final yr.
In filings on the NHTSA website, Tesla mentioned it is going to “exchange the parking brake valve module with a revised half with improved internals that stop air leakage and permit the motive force to have interaction and disengage parking brakes.”
Elon Musk‘s electrical automobile maker is predicted to concern its first-quarter, 2023 automobile manufacturing and deliveries report this weekend. Tesla has not beforehand damaged out Semi manufacturing and supply numbers in its quarterly updates.
