Official deliveries of production Tesla Cybertruck electric pickup trucks to customers began about a year ago, and over the past period, the strange, angular-shaped vehicle has remained a scarce commodity. In addition, previously released Tesla pickups have been subject to recall every now and then to fix faults, and new to this list is a campaign to replace inverters in the power plant.
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As noted in a CNBC publication, citing a notification from the NHTSA agency, which is responsible for road safety in the United States, 2,431 Tesla Cybertruck pickups are affected by the recall, and their owners will have to visit a company service center to eliminate a potentially dangerous defect. A faulty inverter in the traction drive could result in a sudden loss of traction when the accelerator pedal is depressed, creating a potentially dangerous driving situation.
This is already the sixth recall campaign during the presence of the Tesla Cybertruck on the market, and if the previous defect with the incorrect operation of the rear view camera was able to be eliminated remotely through an update of the on-board software, then the defective inverter requires physical replacement at the Tesla branded service. Vehicles from early batches also had their traction motors replaced, and pickups of this brand also had problems with the body trim and windshield wiper, not to mention a sticky accelerator pedal.
If you follow the specifics of Tesla Cybertruck offers on the American market through the company’s official website, you will find that for the first time the manufacturer has begun to offer pickup trucks from stock, whereas previously customers had to be patient for at least a week to wait for the version they needed to be produced, although the range of trim levels still very scarce. The color of the body with stainless steel panels can only be “no”, since they are not painted, but otherwise the choice comes down to a two- or three-motor transmission and a set of options for $20,000 in the Foundation Series package, which cannot be refused when buying a car in this series .
The most affordable single-wheel drive Tesla Cybertruck pickups will begin production no earlier than next year, and existing modifications in the United States can already be purchased without waiting in stock. The next step, if there are problems with the sale of unusual electric vehicles, could be a reduction in prices for the Cybertruck, but it is too early to count on it, since Tesla only reached break-even in the production of pickup trucks in the third quarter, and this model also became the third most popular electric vehicle in the United States after Model Y and Model 3 respectively.