Tesla Semi
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Tesla has issued a voluntary remember on the Semi, a first because the firm started deliveries of the significant-responsibility electric powered vans to prospects in December 2022.
In accordance to remember filings posted on the site of the Nationwide Freeway Traffic Security Administration (NHTSA), 35 Semi vehicles have been influenced. The vehicles have been developed with an digital parking brake valve module identified to incorporate a defect by provider Bendix in February 2023.
The defect remaining drivers vulnerable to “rollaway” incidents and greater the chance of a crash. In accordance to a recall discover, the defective modules may “fall short to shift into the park place when the parking brake is activated” leaving drivers unaware their Semi could roll absent. The parking brake component defect has not resulted in a crash or any damages, in accordance to the filings.
Though Tesla confirmed off the design and style of the Semi in late 2017, it only commenced manufacturing the vehicles in Nevada last calendar year and began deliveries to early client Pepsi at a internet marketing event late last year.
In filings on the NHTSA web site, Tesla stated it will “switch the parking brake valve module with a revised portion with improved internals that reduce air leakage and enable the driver to have interaction and disengage parking brakes.”
Elon Musk’s electric powered vehicle maker is anticipated to situation its 1st-quarter, 2023 automobile output and deliveries report this weekend. Tesla has not previously broken out Semi creation and shipping numbers in its quarterly updates.