Tesla Semi
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Tesla has issued a voluntary recall at the Semi, a primary for the reason that corporate started deliveries of the heavy-duty electrical vehicles to consumers in December 2022.
In keeping with recall filings posted at the site of the Nationwide Freeway Visitors Protection Management, 35 Semi vehicles have been affected. The vehicles have been constructed with an digital parking brake valve module discovered to comprise a defect by way of provider Bendix in February 2023.
The defect left drivers at risk of “rollaway” incidents and greater the possibility of a crash. In keeping with a recall realize, the faulty modules would possibly “fail to transport into the park place when the parking brake is activated” leaving drivers unaware their Semi may roll away. The parking brake part defect has now not led to a crash or any damages, in line with the filings.
Whilst Tesla confirmed off the design of the Semi in past due 2017, it simplest started generating the vehicles in Nevada final yr and started deliveries to early buyer Pepsi at a advertising match past due final yr.
In filings at the NHTSA website, Tesla mentioned it is going to “substitute the parking brake valve module with a revised phase with advanced internals that save you air leakage and make allowance the driving force to interact and disengage parking brakes.”
Elon Musk’s electrical car maker is anticipated to factor its first-quarter 2023 car manufacturing and deliveries file this weekend. Tesla has now not up to now damaged out Semi manufacturing and supply numbers in its quarterly updates.
