Tesla has issued a recall for the Cybertruck due to an issue where the gas pedal can get stuck, putting drivers at risk of an accident, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
The recall caps a tumultuous week for Tesla. The company laid off more than 10% of its workforce on Monday and lost two of its most senior executives. Days later, Tesla asked shareholders to vote again on CEO Elon Musk’s massive compensation package that was struck down by a judge earlier this year.
Reports of problems with the Cybertruck’s gas pedal have started to surface in recent weeks. Tesla is said to have even suspended deliveries of the truck while the problem is resolved. Musk said in an article on
The company has now confirmed to NHTSA that the pedal can become dislodged, allowing it to slide up and get stuck in the trim around the floor.
Tesla said it received the first notice of one of these accelerator pedal incidents from a customer on March 31, then a second on April 3. After conducting a series of tests, it decided on April 12 to issue a recall after determining that “(an) unapproved change introduced lubricant (soap) to facilitate the assembly of the pad components on the accelerator pedal”, and that “(r)esidual lubricant reduced the retention of the pad on the pedal.”
Tesla says it will replace or rework the gas pedal on all existing Cybertrucks – of which, according to documents, it has shipped 3,878 to date. It also told NHTSA that it had started building Cybertrucks with a new gas pedal and was repairing vehicles in transit or parked at delivery centers.
Although the Cybertruck only began shipping late last year, this is not the vehicle’s first recall. But the first problem was minor: Earlier this year, Tesla recalled the software on all of its vehicles because the font size of its warning lights was too small.
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