New headaches are coming for Tesla, the electric car company owned by Elon Musk. Earlier this week, the company announced a recall of nearly 700,000 vehicles due to a tire pressure monitoring system warning light problem.
As explained in a letter sent Thursday by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the recall includes some Cybertruck 2024, Model 3 2017-2025 and Model Y 2020-2025 vehicles. According to reports received by the company, the warning light may stop functioning, and therefore fail to warn drivers about the state of tire pressure.
Driving with flat tires, of course, exposes people in the cars to a higher risk of accidents. To solve this issue Tesla will provide its customers with a free software update for the various vehicles involved.
This year, the Musk-led car company has often been at the center of similar situations. Last June, for example, Tesla was forced, for the fourth time in a few months, to recall more than 11,000 models of its futuristic, stainless steel clad Cybertruck. At the time, the mammoth cars in question had lost trim pieces when purchased and also manifested a malfunction within the front windshield wiper system.
Less than a month later, the company recalled more than 1.8 million vehicles, a number that was nothing short of exorbitant, due to a malfunction in the software that controlled the hood latch. The measure affected several cars, including Model S, Model X, Model Y and Model 3 2021-2024.
The July recall was the second largest involving Tesla, following the one in February 2024, when more than 2 million electric cars were brought back to base for the installation of additional safety measures in the much-discussed Autopilot system.
