In Germany, Tesla’s Models Y and 3 electric vehicles are being recalled by the road traffic agency due to a fault in the emergency call system.
Germany’s motor vehicle authority, the KBA watchdog issued a statement on their website, saying that a software flaw was causing a failure in the eCall system, which is supposed to trigger in a serious accident, and automatically alert emergency responders. They said the flaw affects 59,129 vehicles worldwide, but did not say how many of those vehicles were in Germany.
The report comes on the heels of a bad earnings report for Tesla, in which it was revealed that in Q2, Tesla produced 15.4% fewer vehicles than in Q1, and delivered 17.4 fewer vehicles than in Q1, due to Chinese Covid lockdowns, supply chain snarls, and battery sourcing problems.
Last month Musk famously commented offhand, that Tesla’s new factories in Texas and Berlin were burning through ‘billions of dollars” like “money furnaces” as they sat idle, waiting for batteries and tooling that was stuck on a dock in China.
Tesla is also having a safety probe in the US, where the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) upgraded its probe into 830,000 Tesla vehicles with Tesla’s Autopilot, something necessary for the agency to issue a recall on the vehicles. The agency alleges there is a problem with the autopilot which has caused cars on autopilot to exhibit a history of collisions, often with parked first responder vehicles.
