A Tesla assembly plant building in Tilburg, the Netherlands. Picture: DEAN MOUHTAROPOULOS/GETTY IMAGES
The Palo Alto, California-based company should address consumer hesitation over purchasing its cars after issues ranging from malfunctioning brakes to fires erupting during the vehicles’ charging emerged last year, Tuesday’s article said. Over the weekend, a Tesla car that no-one appeared to be driving crashed in Texas, erupting into flames and killing the two passengers. The car ran into a tree after travelling at high speed and failing to navigate a turn. One victim was found in the front passenger seat of the 2019 Model S and the other was in the rear, suggesting no-one was driving at the time of impact.
Tesla has been called in by Chinese regulators over quality and safety issues before, including battery fires and abnormal acceleration. It was forced into issuing a public apology to China’s state grid in early February after a video purportedly showed staff blaming an overload in the national electricity network for damage to a customer’s vehicle.
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