OSLO — Sweden’s Transport Company stated on Friday it’s investigating suspension failures in Tesla vehicles together with an analogous probe by neighboring Norway’s visitors security regulator.
“We can … confirm that investigative work is also underway with us,” the Swedish company stated in an emailed assertion to Reuters.
Tesla didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
The Finnish transport and communications company informed Reuters it had not been contacted about defective suspension failures.
The Norwegian Public Roads Administration (NPRA) on Thursday stated it began questioning Tesla in September 2022 and requested the automaker to evaluate shopper complaints about decrease rear management arms breaking on its Mannequin S and X automobiles.
The Norwegian company might advocate that Tesla recall the automobiles to exchange the elements if it determines they pose a “serious risk.” Nevertheless, it might additionally shut the overview if there is no such thing as a security difficulty or resolve to increase the investigation.
Requested concerning the Norwegian probe, the Swedish company stated it too had acquired “a number of notifications about cars from the Tesla brand that have suffered from similar problems”.
A spokesperson for the Swedish regulator declined to remark additional on particulars of the investigation because it was nonetheless ongoing.
Information of the Swedish and Norwegian inquiries follows a Reuters investigation printed on Wednesday that uncovered how Tesla has blamed drivers for frequent failures of suspension and steering elements that it has lengthy identified have been faulty.
Dealing with hovering guarantee prices, Tesla sought to slash spending on repairs partially by attributing the failures to “driver abuse,” in keeping with the report, which was based mostly on hundreds of Tesla paperwork and interviews with former staff, together with service managers and technicians in Norway.
