The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says that Tesla has recalled the Cybertruck because the speed pedal can get stuck. This puts drivers at risk of a crash.
The recall is the end of a rough week for Tesla. Three of the company’s top leaders were let go along with more than 10% of its staff on Monday. A few days later, Tesla asked shareholders to vote again on CEO Elon Musk’s huge pay deal, which had already been thrown out by a judge earlier this year.
In the past few weeks, there have been reports of problems with the Cybertruck’s accelerator button. Reports say that Tesla even stopped sending out the truck while it fixed the problem. Musk wrote on X that Tesla was “being very careful,” and the company told the NHTSA that it knew of no accidents or injuries that were caused by the problem.
The company has now told NHTSA that the pedal can come loose, allowing it to slide up and get caught in the trim around the footwell.
Tesla said it first heard about one of these problems with the accelerator button on March 31 and then heard about a second one on April 3. It called for a recall on April 12 after a series of tests showed that “an unapproved change introduced lubricant (soap) to aid in the component assembly of the pad onto the accelerator pedal” and that “residual lubricant reduced the retention of the pad to the pedal.”
Tesla says it will repair or fix the accelerator pedal on all Cybertrucks that are already on the road. According to the paperwork, the company has already sent out 3,878 Cybertrucks. It also told the NHTSA that it has started making Cybertrucks with a new accelerator button and is fixing the ones that are on the way or at delivery centers.
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The Cybertruck didn’t start arriving until late last year, but this is already the second time the vehicle has been recalled. The first one, though, was pretty small: earlier this year, Tesla had to recall the software on all of its cars because the warning lights’ font sizes were too small.
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