Tesla finds ‘cell-dent’ issues in Cybertrucks, starts replacing battery packs- looki – Luxury cars

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 vehicles again to Gigafactory Texas to research and substitute the packs.

Cybertruck has been in manufacturing for a yr 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 automobile program isn’t with out points.

Tesla issued a number of remembers on the Cybertruck and many homeowners have reported frequent service visits. Tesla even purchased again some Cybertrucks that had many issues.

Now, Electrek has discovered a few new Cybertruck drawback: cell dents.

In line with sources accustomed to the matter and paperwork reviewed by Electrek, Tesla has detected “cell dents” in some Cybertruck battery packs and it’s now transport these vehicles again to Gigafactory Texas to have the battery packs changed.

Cybertruck is the one Tesla automobile constructed with Tesla’s personal in-house 4680 battery cell.

The difficulty was detected in “many stock autos,” in accordance with somebody accustomed to 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 Collection 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 pc replacements in newer vehicles.

Subsequently, the automaker is sending the Cybertrucks with these battery pack points to Gigafactory Texas, or different areas 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 just lately discovered one other difficulty with the Cybertruck battery pack and launched a service bulletin about it. Some vehicles have the battery ancillary harness improperly put in.

The automaker wrote:

On sure Cybertruck autos, the HV battery ancillary harness could have been improperly routed, which could pressure the harness branches and/or connectors between the Excessive Voltage Controller (HVC) and Battery Administration Boards (BMBs), probably stopping HVC and BMB communication by way of one of many two harness branches.

If mandatory, Tesla technicians are requested to examine autos for signs and substitute the harness on vehicles coming into service in the event that they should.

Electrek’s Take

It seems like Tesla is having a tricky end-of-quarter/end-of-the-year. On high of the standard insanity to attempt to ship every thing in stock, the automaker is dealing with some severe points with the brand new model of the HW4 pc and attempting to eliminate Cybertruck stock.

To handle the latter, Tesla has to transform them to Canadian autos, non-Basis Collection, and now additionally substitute some battery packs.

However Tesla wants to try to promote these vehicles by the top of the quarter to make its financials look higher for the top of the quarter.