Tesla has discovered an issue with “cell denting” in some Cybertrucks and it’s beginning to change the battery packs. The automaker is even sending the vehicles again to Gigafactory Texas to analyze and change the packs.
Cybertruck has been in manufacturing for a 12 months now, and the manufacturing ramp has been comparatively easy.
Tesla is now able to producing a number of 1000’s of Cybertrucks per week at Gigafactory Texas.
Nonetheless, the automobile program isn’t with out points.
Tesla issued a number of recollects on the Cybertruck and many homeowners have reported frequent service visits. Tesla even purchased again some Cybertrucks that had many issues.
Now, Electrek has discovered a couple of new Cybertruck downside: cell dents.
In keeping with sources aware of the matter and paperwork reviewed by Electrek, Tesla has detected “cell dents” in some Cybertruck battery packs and it’s now delivery these vehicles again to Gigafactory Texas to have the battery packs changed.
Cybertruck is the one Tesla automobile constructed with Tesla’s personal in-house 4680 battery cell.
The difficulty was detected in “many stock automobiles,” based on somebody aware of the matter, nevertheless it doesn’t seem to have proven up in buyer automobiles but.
As we reported this week, Tesla has been caught with a excessive variety of Cybertrucks in stock within the US and it’s now taking actions, together with changing Basis Collection Cybertrucks into common ones and homologating over 800 stock US Cybertrucks for the Canadian market.
Tesla’s service and collision facilities are already overwhelmed by these modifications and different points, like self-driving laptop replacements in newer vehicles.
Subsequently, the automaker is sending the Cybertrucks with these battery pack points to Gigafactory Texas, or different places that aren’t as busy.
Tesla hasn’t issued a service bulletin about the issue and it’s unclear what number of automobiles are affected by this “cell dent” downside.
Nonetheless, Tesla has lately discovered one other challenge with the Cybertruck battery pack and launched a service bulletin about it. Some vehicles have the battery ancillary harness improperly put in.
The automaker wrote:
On sure Cybertruck automobiles, the HV battery ancillary harness could have been improperly routed, which could pressure the harness branches and/or connectors between the Excessive Voltage Controller (HVC) and Battery Administration Boards (BMBs), doubtlessly stopping HVC and BMB communication by way of one of many two harness branches.
If mandatory, Tesla technicians are requested to examine automobiles for signs and change the harness on vehicles coming into service in the event that they need to.
Electrek’s Take
It seems like Tesla is having a troublesome end-of-quarter/end-of-the-year. On prime of the standard insanity to attempt to ship all the things in stock, the automaker is dealing with some critical points with the brand new model of the HW4 laptop and attempting to do away with Cybertruck stock.
To deal with the latter, Tesla has to transform them to Canadian automobiles, non-Basis Collection, and now additionally change some battery packs.
However Tesla wants to aim to promote these vehicles by the top of the quarter to make its financials look higher for the top of the quarter.
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