No matter how many times it is wrecked, no matter how many times it is recalled, consumers still love Tesla like "first love".
A few days ago, Tesla filed a recall plan with the State Administration for Market Regulation. Effective April 7, 2022, the recall will recall a total of 127785 imported and domestically produced Model 3s from January 11, 2019 to January 25, 2022.
In fact, I can't remember this is the first recall of Tesla, and it is just a car company that has just entered the Chinese market for 4 years.
But this still does not hinder consumer choice, Tesla still has a large number of people lined up to buy, and even in short supply. Tesla delivered 310,000 vehicles in the first quarter of this year, an increase of 67.7% year-on-year and a record high.
However, compared with the previous Tesla larger recall of 280,000 vehicles, because active cruise is easy to be activated by mistake, rather than the failure of the vehicle's power system. This time the inverter caused a stall, which is obviously a more significant technical problem.
First, the recall document was officially issued, indicating that the quality inspection agency and Tesla admitted that the quality was indeed wrong, and secondly, on the problem itself, the inverter failure may cause the vehicle to lose power, which is a real power system defect. Imagine that on the highway, surrounded by cars with a speed of more than 100 per hour, the vehicle you are driving suddenly has no power, and the safety hazards are self-evident.
Interestingly, Tesla's recall this time is not to return all the problem vehicles to the factory to replace parts in the conventional sense, but to first test the inverter chip of the batch of vehicles through OTA and replace the vehicles that found faults. In short, they are facing recalls, and Tesla is still thinking about minimizing its losses.
However, if Tesla's EDR detection data is complete and reliable enough to ensure that vehicles that may have potential failure hazards can be detected accurately and in a timely manner, such a recall model will not have much impact. However, I am very curious that in theory, the model Y and Model 3 parts sharing rate is more than 70%, and this recall only Model 3 does not mention Model Y at all, which is really puzzling.
In addition, it should be pointed out that there are comments on the Internet that this Tesla recall is equivalent to a disguised admission of brake failure, but the two are not actually directly related. The failure caused by the inverter chip is indeed related to the power system, but the problem of brake failure lies in the brake or the electronic control system that controls the brake.
Of course, whether it is the loss of power caused by the inverter failure, or the failure of Schrödinger's brakes, Tesla should now choose to recall the occurrence of vehicle failures for the first time, at least from the attitude of hoping to solve the problem, which is a good thing for consumers.