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Tesla Recalls Over 27,000 Cybertrucks in Fifth Callback This Year
Oct 4 2024 // Tesla said on Thursday it would recall more than 27,000 Cybertrucks in the United States due to delayed rear-view camera images that could impair driver visibility and increase crash risks. This is the fifth recall issued...
Judge Dismisses Shareholder Lawsuit Against Tesla, Musk Over Self-Driving Promises
Oct 1 2024 // Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk on Monday won the dismissal of a lawsuit accusing them of defrauding shareholders by overstating the effectiveness and safety of the automaker’s self-driving technology in order to boost...
Appeals Court Revives Tesla’s Challenge Against Louisiana Law Banning Direct Sales
Aug 29 2024 // NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Tesla’s federal court challenge to a Louisiana law that prohibits automobile manufacturers from selling directly to consumers has been revived by an appeals court. The lawsuit by the electric car...
U.S. Transport Safety Board Opens Investigation Into Tesla Crash in California
Aug 22 2024 // The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board has opened an investigation into a crash and fire involving a Tesla electric semi-truck on a California highway, the agency said late Wednesday. The NTSB will carry out the...
Tesla Sued by Family of Electrician Who Died at Austin Facility
Aug 12 2024 // The family of a Texas man who died while working at Tesla’s Austin-area facility last week is suing the electric vehicle company and his employer. The lawsuit said the worker, Victor Joe Gomez Sr., was at the...
NHTSA Seeking Information on Fatal Tesla Cybertruck Crash in Texas
Aug 6 2024 // The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Monday it was seeking more information about an accident involving Tesla’s TSLA.O Cybertruck from the electric vehicle maker. The driver of the electric...
Tesla Registers Insurance Brokerage in China, National Corporate Database Shows
Aug 2 2024 // Tesla registered an insurance broking firm in China at the end of July, based on a national corporate information database, in a sign that the U.S. automaker may be trying again to gain approval to sell insurance products...
Tesla Recalls 1.85 Million US Vehicles Over Unlatched Hood Issue
Jul 31 2024 // Tesla is recalling 1.85 million vehicles in the United States due to risk of software failure to detect an unlatched hood, the automaker said. An unlatched hood could fully open and obstruct the driver’s view,...
Tesla’s California Car Registrations Fall for Third Straight Quarter
Jul 19 2024 // Registrations of Tesla cars in California fell 24% in the April to June period, marking the third consecutive quarter that the company posted a sales drop in its key market, indicating mounting challenges for the EV maker,...
Tesla Must Face Autopilot False Ad Claims by California DMV
Jun 11 2024 // Tesla Inc. failed to persuade an administrative judge to dismiss claims by a California regulator that the company overstated its vehicles’ self-driving capabilities — one of several ongoing regulatory...
Tesla to Recall 125,227 Vehicles Over Faulty Seat Belt Warning System
May 31 2024 // Tesla is recalling 125,227 vehicles in the U.S. due to a malfunction in its seat belt warning system that can increase the risk of injury in a collision, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on...
Tesla Settles Fatal Crash Suit as Another Jury Trial Loomed
May 29 2024 // Tesla Inc. has reached a deal to resolve a lawsuit over the death of a Model S passenger in a fiery 2016 crash, marking the second time in two months the electric-vehicle maker has avoided a jury trial in California over a...
Tesla Settles Factory Worker’s Sexual Harassment Lawsuit
May 14 2024 // Tesla has settled a lawsuit by a former factory employee who says she was fired for complaining about severe sexual harassment, as the electric carmaker faces a series of sex and race discrimination lawsuits. U.S. District...
Lawsuit: Tesla’s Autopilot Caused Fiery Crash into Tree, Killing Colorado Man
May 14 2024 // The widow of a man who died after his Tesla veered off the road and crashed into a tree while he was using its partially automated driving system is suing the carmaker, claiming its marketing of the technology is...
In Tesla Autopilot Probe, US Prosecutors Focus on Securities, Wire Fraud
May 8 2024 // U.S. prosecutors are examining whether Tesla committed securities or wire fraud by misleading investors and consumers about its electric vehicles’ self-driving capabilities, three people familiar with the matter told...
NHTSA Seeks Answers From Tesla in Autopilot Recall Probe
May 7 2024 // U.S. auto safety investigators are seeking detailed answers and documents from Tesla in a probe into the automaker’s December recall of more than 2 million vehicles to install new Autopilot safeguards. The National...
New Vehicle Registrations in California Rose, While Tesla Registrations Dropped Again
May 6 2024 // The first quarter of the year saw the sixth straight quarterly increase (.7%) in overall registrations in California in the first quarter from the same period last year, while the state’s love affair with...
US Probes Tesla Recall of 2 Million Vehicles Over Autopilot, Citing Concerns
Apr 26 2024 // U.S. auto safety regulators said Friday they have opened an investigation into whether Tesla’s recall of more than 2 million vehicles announced in December to install new Autopilot safeguards is adequate. The...
Tesla to Recall 3,878 Cybertrucks Over Faulty Accelerator Pedal, NHTSA Says
Apr 19 2024 // Tesla is recalling 3,878 Cybertrucks to fix an accelerator pedal pad that could come loose and get lodged in the interior trim, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said on Friday. A trapped...
Tesla Settles Case Over Fatal Autopilot Crash of Apple Engineer
Apr 9 2024 // Tesla has settled a lawsuit over a 2018 car crash that killed an Apple engineer after his Model X, operating on Autopilot, swerved off a highway near San Francisco, court documents showed on Monday. The settlement was made...
