Tesla has issued its sixth recall this year for the angular, stainless steel Cybertruck after it found more than 2,400 of the electric trucks may have a defect that could cause them to lose drive power, increasing the risk of crashes, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Wednesday.
Tesla will replace the affected part, the drive inverter, for free starting on or shortly after Dec. 9, according to a safety recall report the auto safety agency released on Wednesday.
Some of the previous Cybertruck recalls affected more vehicles. One that was issued in October for a delay in the rearview camera image affected more than 27,100 Cybertrucks. Another, issued in June for a front windshield wiper that could fail, involved a recall of more than 11,600 Cybertrucks. In April, Tesla recalled nearly 4,000 Cybertrucks to fix an accelerator pedal that could get stuck. And in February, some newer Cybertruck models were included in a wider recall of about 2.2 million Teslas over a too-small font on warning lights panels.
Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The latest recall affects 2,431 Cybertruck pickups that were manufactured between Nov. 6, 2023, and July 30 of this year, the safety administration report said. As of Oct. 30, Tesla said it was not aware of any accidents, fatalities or injuries that may have been caused by the defect.
The recall notice comes as Tesla’s stock surged after Donald J. Trump won the presidential election. The company’s chief executive, Elon Musk, spent at least $119 million on a super PAC supporting Mr. Trump and has frequently been at the president-elect’s side since the election.
Mr. Musk, who has railed against regulations, is expected to play a role in helping Mr. Trump select nominees to lead federal agencies, including the National Highway Traffic Administration. And on Tuesday, Mr. Trump announced that Mr. Musk would help lead an initiative to slash government regulations and spending. It is not clear how the project will work, but Mr. Trump said it would recommend major cuts to federal agencies.
Mr. Trump on Tuesday did not address the potential conflicts of interest for Mr. Musk, who founded SpaceX, the rocket company, as well as Neuralink, a company that is trying to connect the human brain to a computer. Mr. Musk’s role in the Trump administration would have him scrutinizing the spending of federal agencies that have given his companies federal contracts, and agencies that have initiated at least 20 recent investigations or reviews of his companies, including Tesla.
Tesla, the largest electric vehicle manufacturer in the United States, reached a $1 trillion valuation after the election, after a period of sluggish sales earlier this year.
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