Tesla has discovered an issue with “cell denting” in some Cybertrucks and it’s beginning to change the battery packs. The automaker is even sending the vans again to Gigafactory Texas to analyze and exchange the packs.
Cybertruck has been in manufacturing for a 12 months now, and the manufacturing ramp has been comparatively easy.
Tesla is now able to producing a number of hundreds of Cybertrucks per week at Gigafactory Texas.
Nonetheless, the car program isn’t with out points.
Tesla issued a number of remembers on the Cybertruck and many house owners have reported frequent service visits. Tesla even purchased again some Cybertrucks that had many issues.
Now, Electrek has realized a couple of new Cybertruck drawback: cell dents.
In keeping with sources acquainted with the matter and paperwork reviewed by Electrek, Tesla has detected “cell dents” in some Cybertruck battery packs and it’s now transport these vans again to Gigafactory Texas to have the battery packs changed.
Cybertruck is the one Tesla car constructed with Tesla’s personal in-house 4680 battery cell.
The difficulty was detected in “many stock autos,” in response to somebody acquainted with the matter, but it surely doesn’t seem to have proven up in buyer autos but.
As we reported this week, Tesla has been caught with a excessive variety of Cybertrucks in stock within the US and it’s now taking actions, together with changing Basis Sequence Cybertrucks into common ones and homologating over 800 stock US Cybertrucks for the Canadian market.
Tesla’s service and collision facilities are already overwhelmed by these modifications and different points, like self-driving laptop replacements in newer automobiles.
Due to this fact, the automaker is sending the Cybertrucks with these battery pack points to Gigafactory Texas, or different places that aren’t as busy.
Tesla hasn’t issued a service bulletin about the issue and it’s unclear what number of autos are affected by this “cell dent” drawback.
Nonetheless, Tesla has not too long ago discovered one other concern with the Cybertruck battery pack and launched a service bulletin about it. Some vans have the battery ancillary harness improperly put in.
The automaker wrote:
On sure Cybertruck autos, the HV battery ancillary harness might have been improperly routed, which could pressure the harness branches and/or connectors between the Excessive Voltage Controller (HVC) and Battery Administration Boards (BMBs), doubtlessly stopping HVC and BMB communication by means of one of many two harness branches.
If obligatory, Tesla technicians are requested to examine autos for signs and exchange the harness on vans coming into service in the event that they should.
Electrek’s Take
It appears like Tesla is having a troublesome end-of-quarter/end-of-the-year. On high of the standard insanity to attempt to ship all the things in stock, the automaker is going through some critical points with the brand new model of the HW4 laptop and attempting to eliminate Cybertruck stock.
To deal with the latter, Tesla has to transform them to Canadian autos, non-Basis Sequence, and now additionally exchange some battery packs.
However Tesla wants to aim to promote these vans by the top of the quarter to make its financials look higher for the top of the quarter.
