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The safety and quality of Tesla cars and services have been questioned. There have been hundreds of reports of sudden unintended acceleration, brake failures, and "whompy wheels" – collapsing wheels due to faulty car suspension. These safety and quality problems have been compounded in the past by the poor wait times of Tesla's customer service.
The book traces Tesla's inception along with episodes and controversies from the first fifteen years of the company under the leadership of Elon Musk. In it, Niedermeyer uses original research, anonymous insider accounts, and industry analysis to explore "Tesla's attempt to merge Silicon Valley arrogance with automotive industry standards". [ 1 ]
The Publishers Weekly review remarked that "Higgins takes an in-depth and well-balanced look at the interplay between Musk’s swashbuckling mindset of “building the airplane as [he] was heading down the runway” and the hardheadedness of Tesla's veteran engineers and leaders, who understood the rigors of making cars that could kill people ...
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While Tesla has had its share of problems, there's no denying that the company has helped electric vehicles become more mainstream. In 2018, ten years after launching its original Roadster, Tesla ...
It mainly suffered from bad marketing and bad build quality (caused chiefly by Edsels sharing production with Ford and Mercury models, rather than being on a dedicated assembly line). It was also released at a time when the USA was hit by a recession and demand for medium-priced large cars decreased as US consumers started buying smaller ...
Investors and Tesla fans commonly called the anticipated cheap car a “Model 2,” slotting in below the Model 3, currently the least-expensive Tesla, starting at $42,490.
Tesla released a video of Cybertruck pulling a rear-wheel-drive Ford F-150 uphill in a tug of war. [21] News outlets pointed out this was due to the Cybertruck's heavier weight. [22] [23] Tesla's stated goal was to provide a sustainable energy substitute for the roughly 6,500 fossil-fuel-powered pickup-trucks sold per day in the United States. [24]