Cybertruck’s Many Recalls Make It Worse Than 91 Percent of All 2024 Vehicles
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Cybertruck owners have discovered that a chunk of these stainless steel electric pickups could “stop producing torque” while thrumming along. The fault was noted by Tesla in a November 5 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recall. Any sudden loss of propulsion might “increase the risk of a collision,” added the filing ominously. The latest recall—the wedge wagon’s sixth this year—requires shop time, not an over-the-air (OTA) update.
Reports of instantaneous loss of e-horsepower due to duff drive inverters—devices that convert DC to AC and control an EV’s motor speed and torque—might alarm the average EV motorist, but to extrovert buyers of Elon Musk’s flagship, it’s evidence of the angular pickup’s edginess, Ivan Drury, the director of insights at car shopping guide Edmunds, told WIRED.
“The people drawn to [the Cybertruck] don’t have quality of construction or safety at the top of mind,” he says. “That this could be a dangerous vehicle to drive is key to its appeal. Nobody’s buying it to use as an actual truck.”
