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submitted 11 months ago by tardigrada@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

Tens of thousands of Tesla owners have had the suspension or steering of their vehicles — even in practically brand new ones — fail in recent years. Newly obtained documents show how Tesla engineers internally called these incidents "flaws" and "failures."

Nonetheless, some of the documents suggest technicians were told to tell consumers that these failures weren't due to faulty parts, but the result of drivers "abusing" their vehicles, which highlights the EV maker and its CEO Elon Musk's infamous way of handling customer complaints.

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[-] 1984@lemmy.today 31 points 11 months ago

So much talk about Tesla. It's like people don't realize Tesla is not even relevant anymore. They were first with good electric cars, but their cars all have reliability problems and tech problems.

In the mean time, other manufacturers like Kia is eating their lunch without much publicity. :)

[-] nxdefiant@startrek.website 21 points 11 months ago

KIA sold 15,000 EV's in 2023. Tesla sold 1.8 million. That's about 0.8% of their lunch. I think the publicity is appropriately sized.

[-] 1984@lemmy.today 5 points 11 months ago

Didn't know it was such a huge difference, thank you :)

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