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Tesla is recalling astir 3,900 of its Cybertrucks owed to an rumor pinch nan vehicle's accelerator pedal.
The recall, announced Wednesday, was prompted by accelerator pedal pads successful nan trucks that "may dislodge and origin nan pedal to go trapped by nan interior trim," nan National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said.
That rumor "can origin nan conveyance to accelerate unintentionally, expanding nan consequence of a crash," according to nan agency.
A Tesla Cybertruck astatine a Tesla shop successful San Jose, California, connected Nov. 28, 2023. ( David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)
All of nan 3,878 of nan 2024 Cybertrucks that Tesla built betwixt Nov. 13 and April 4 are taxable to nan recall, nan electrical conveyance maker’s information callback study said.
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Tesla reported nan accelerator pedal pad problem did not lead to immoderate crashes, injuries aliases fatalities. It was flagged to Tesla astatine nan extremity of March by a customer.
A Tesla firm logo hangs connected nan beforehand of their shop successful Santa Monica connected April 10, 2023, successful Los Angeles, California. ((Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images) / Getty Images)
Impacted Cybertruck owners tin get nan accelerator pedal assembly replaced aliases reworked by Tesla truthful that it "ensures capable retention unit betwixt nan pad and accelerator pedal to forestall nan pad from dislodging," nan callback study said. The hole will beryllium free.
Tesla fto stores and work centers cognize astir nan callback Friday. That will beryllium followed successful June by mailed notification to customers, according to nan NHTSA notice.
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The rumor arose aft an "unapproved alteration introduced lubricant (soap) to assistance successful nan constituent assembly of nan pad onto nan accelerator pedal," Tesla said.
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The institution besides said successful nan callback study it has addressed nan rumor successful production.
Tesla's Cybertruck astatine nan Tesla Design Center successful Hawthorne, California, connected Nov. 21, 2019. (Getty Images / Getty Images)
The Cybertruck is nan most caller vehicle that Tesla added to its lineup, which besides includes nan Model Y, 3, X and S. The institution makes all-electric Semi trucks arsenic well.
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In precocious January, CEO Elon Musk touted nan Cybertruck arsenic looking "like nan future."
"There’s immoderate very bully trucks connected nan road, but if you were to move retired nan marque name, you wouldn’t hardly cognize which institution made them, but you decidedly would cognize nan Cybertruck," he said. "That’s our champion merchandise ever."
