135,000 vehicles!Tesla’s largest recall in history, Musk admits to quality problems

Original title: 135,000 vehicles!The largest recall in Tesla’s history Musk admits to quality problems

Beijing News Shell Finance (Reporter Lin Zi) After the recall message was issued in the United States, Tesla also initiated the recall in China. On February 5, the State Administration of Market Supervision and Administration announced that Tesla Motors (Beijing) Co., Ltd., in accordance with the requirements of the “Regulations on the Recall of Defective Automobile Products” and the “Implementation Measures for the Administration of Recall of Defective Automobile Products” The recall plan was filed.

According to the plan, from February 5, 2021, Tesla will recall some imported Model S vehicles whose production date is between September 18, 2013 and February 20, 2018, and that the production date is March 2016 Part of the imported Model X vehicles between the 12th and February 16, 2018 were 20,428 and 15,698 respectively.

The State Administration for Market Regulation and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) disclosed the same situation, saying that some of the vehicles within the scope of Tesla’s recall are equipped with eMMC multimedia memory cards, which have an industry standard 3000 times programming /Erase cycle, but as time goes by, depending on the actual usage, the eMMC hardware will exhaust the life cycle of each storage unit.

When the eMMC storage unit hardware reaches the end of its life span, the eMMC controller will not be able to maintain the integrity of the file system. This loss situation may cause the malfunction of the central display software function, and may indirectly lead to the reversing image failure, the defrost/defogging control failure and the failure of the external turn signal to light up, and there is a safety risk.

In the United States, Tesla recalled the largest vehicles ever. The documents released by NHTSA show that Tesla will recall a total of 134,951 electric vehicles, including the Model S produced from 2012 to 2018 at the Fremont plant in California, and the Model X produced from 2016 to 2018.

In fact, this recall was made by Tesla under pressure from NHTSA. On January 13 this year, NHTSA requested Tesla to recall a total of 158,716 electric vehicles. The regulatory agency believes that the aforementioned touch screen issues will affect vehicle safety.

According to the recall plan, Tesla will notify car owners that the company will upgrade the eMMC multimedia memory card on the recalled vehicle from 8GB to 64GB for free by replacing the visual computing module in the central display, and ensure that the vehicle is installed on 2020.48.12. Version or newer version of the software to eliminate potential safety hazards. It is expected that the recall will be carried out on March 30 this year.

Tesla’s quality problems have been criticized by consumers. Recently, Tesla CEO Musk admitted that Tesla has quality control problems in an interview with analyst Sandy Monroe. He said in interviews that friends often asked him when he should buy Tesla. At that time, his answer was: “Either buy at the beginning or wait for production to stabilize before buying. But in the process of production acceleration, It is indeed very difficult to achieve a straight increase in output and perfection in all the small details.”

In addition, for the uneven quality of Model 3, Musk said that the quality of production has been improved by the end of 2020. He revealed that during the production increase, there was not even enough time to dry the car paint, and lamented that the production at that time was like hell.

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