Tesla faces new NHTSA probe over loss of steering control in Model 3 and Y vehicles

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened a caller probe into Tesla implicit steering power problems and nonaccomplishment of powerfulness steering successful 2023 Model 3 sedan and Model Y crossover inferior vehicles.

The national conveyance information regulators said successful a announcement posted to the agency's website that they person received a twelve complaints from drivers who experienced steering problems successful their Teslas, 1 who said it had caused a crash. The recently initiated probe (a "preliminary evaluation") pertains to an estimated conveyance colonisation of up to 280,000 of the 2023 Model 3 and Y vehicles successful the U.S.

The Model Y became the world's best-selling car successful the archetypal 4th of 2023 surpassing the likes of the Toyota Corolla and others. Tesla's Model 3 is the company's entry-level and astir affordable electrical car it offers.

In 2021, Tesla CEO Elon Musk told investors that the institution was capable to rewrite bundle successful bid to power from 1 benignant of spot to another, erstwhile needed, to header with semiconductor shortages. About a twelvemonth later, Tesla voluntarily recalled immoderate of its Model S and Model X vehicles implicit powerfulness steering problems caused by a flawed bundle update, yet fixing the contented with different bundle update.

Typically, a NHTSA probe volition pb to an automaker investigating imaginable manufacturing oregon plan defects, and conducting a voluntary recall. The bureau asks drivers to submit complaints by telephone oregon online, and uses those complaints with different information to find erstwhile investigations are needed.

Tesla did not instantly respond to a petition for comment. Shares successful the electrical conveyance shaper were trading down by astir 1.7% Tuesday morning.