{"id":1441,"date":"2019-11-03T19:58:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T19:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/?p=1441"},"modified":"2019-11-03T20:01:47","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T20:01:47","slug":"tesla-batteries-investigated-for-possible-defects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/tesla-batteries-investigated-for-possible-defects\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Batteries Investigated for Possible Defects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The\nNational Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating why Tesla\nvehicles have spontaneously burst into flames.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The federal agency has launched an investigation possible battery defects in Tesla sedans and SUVs and the possibility that battery defects may have caused a number of cars<\/a> to burst into flames.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The National\nHighway Traffic Safety Administration sent a letter, dated October 24, to Al\nPrescott, Tesla’s deputy general counsel, telling that it is evaluating a\npetition to investigate defects in battery software updates in Model S and\nModel X vehicles made between 2012 and 2019. In the letter, the company was\nalso asked for an accounting of software updates to the battery management\nsystem as well as other documents, including consumer complaints and any\nreports related to the fire incidents in response to an “alarming number\nof car fires that have occurred worldwide.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The\nalleged defects in question are “high-voltage battery fires\u201d that are not\nrelated to collision or impact damage to the battery pack, says the safety agency\nin the letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The agency\nplans to interview all past and present officers and employees who have been\ninvolved with the design, engineering, modification, production, testing, analysis,\nor evaluation of the battery management system, as well as those who had\nconsideration of potential actual defects through forums such as field reports\nor complaints and had communication to or from zone representatives, dealers or\nother field locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Business Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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