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Tesla has started rolling out an over-the-air software update to
fix the issue, the NHTSA said. The updated software detects an
open hood and alerts drivers of the situation.
The recall affects certain 2021-2024 Model 3, Model S, Model X,
and 2020-2024 Model Y vehicles, the regulator said. The
vehicles, Tesla said, were equipped with a hood latch produced
in China by Magna Closures Co Ltd.
The company said it began investigating customer complaints of
unprompted hood opening instances in certain Model 3 and Model Y
vehicles in China in March, and initiated a latch hardware
recovery and in-service vehicle inspection.
While fewer such events occurred in Europe and North America,
Tesla said it began engineering studies in the regions to
inspect hood latch assemblies last month and decided to issue a
recall earlier this month.
The recall is Tesla's biggest since December when it had issued
a recall covering 2.03 million U.S. vehicles - or nearly all of
its cars on U.S. roads at the time - to install new safeguards
in its Autopilot system.
However, following reports of 20 crashes involving vehicles that
had the new Autopilot update, the NHTSA has opened a probe,
saying it had identified "several concerns" regarding the
recall.
Tesla last week posted its worst quarterly profit margin in more
than five years, underscoring the EV maker's struggle to revive
auto sales amid a slowdown in demand.
(Reporting by Disha Mishra and Deborah Sophia in Bengaluru;
Editing by Shinjini Ganguli)
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