Tesla recalling 239,000 automobiles in U.S. over rearview digital camera screw ups

Tesla is spontaneously recalling about 239,000 of its electrical automobiles within the U.S. to cure a topic that may reason its rearview cameras to fail, the corporate disclosed in filings posted Friday to the Nationwide Freeway Visitors Protection Management’s website online.

“A rearview camera that does not display an image reduces the driver’s rear view, increasing the risk of a crash,” Tesla wrote in a letter to the regulator. The recall applies to Tesla’s 2024-2025 Fashion 3 and Fashion S sedans, and to its 2023-2025 Fashion X and Fashion Y SUVs.

The corporate additionally stated within the acknowledgement letter that it has already “released an over-the-air (OTA) software update, free of charge” that may cure one of the most automobiles’ digital camera problems.

In 2024, Tesla issued 16 recollects within the U.S. that carried out to five.14 million of its EVs, in keeping with NHTSA data. The recall therapies incorporated a mixture of over-the-air device updates and portions replacements. Greater than 40% of ultimate life’s recollects pertained to problems with the most recent automobile within the corporate’s lineup, the Cybertruck, an angular metal pickup that Tesla started handing over to shoppers in overdue 2023.

In regards to the untouched recall, the corporate stated it had won 887 guaranty claims and dozens of grassland reviews however instructed the NHTSA that it used to be no longer acutely aware of any injurious, deadly or alternative collisions due to the rearview digital camera screw ups.

Alternative shoppers with automobiles that “experienced a circuit board failure or stress that may lead to a circuit board failure,” which reason the supplementary digital camera screw ups, may have their automobiles’ computer systems changed through Tesla, isolated of fee, the corporate stated.

Tesla didn’t straight away reply to CNBC’s request for remark.