Tesla Model S denies suspension defects, journalist reprimand blog

Tesla Model S denies suspension defects, journalist reprimand blog ,

Tesla denied that its cars suffer from defects suspension, suggesting that the comments of the Highway Traffic Safety US national administration (NHTSA) have been badly interpreted. Yesterday, an agency spokesman said it was "to examine the question of the potential suspension of the Tesla Model S," with the administrator of the NHTSA Mark Rosekind later adding that the agency was in "data collection mode."

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Tesla said he gave NHTSA all the data it needs

Tesla Note that this is not an official investigation, and that the company has provided NHTSA with all relevant data before April. However, the interest of the NHTSA is not only the safety of the S model, but in the claims that Tesla asked a customer with a defective vehicle to sign a non-disclosure agreement as part of an agreement to fix their car at reduced prices.

this particular case is what seems to have generated the most Recent comments from the NHTSA. in an article published on Daily Kanban Edward Niedermeyer covered with a wire on the Tesla Motors Club forum in which a poster describes the suspension on his 2013 Model S only at low speed . The car was out of warranty, but Tesla has offered to repair the damage to half price -. Pay 50 percent of the bill $ 3,100

The NHTSA calls the NDA "troublesome"

The owner the car said he was asked to sign a "goodwill agreement" in exchange for the surrender, which includes a clause stating that the signer will "agree to maintain the confidentiality of our delivery of good will, under the agreement and major incidents or complaints or related to our provision of good will. " NHTSA has described it as "annoying" Thursday and was "immediately informed Tesla that any language implying that consumers should not contact the agency regarding security issues is unacceptable" and that it "expects to Tesla eliminate such language. "

Tesla described the idea that this would prevent a client to talk to the NHTSA "or any other government agency" as "absurd." He said these goodwill agreements are used to "ensure that Tesla does not do a good deed, only to have used against us in court. " However, the agreement clearly states that the owner must keep the "confidential" incident - and it's a bit disturbing that the company would make all efforts to prevent a client from talking about a problem with their car

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Tesla tacitly admits there may be a fault with the agreement, saying it "take a look at this [and] working with NHTSA to see if we can handle it differently." He added that the contract does not mention "NHTSA or the government," and that the company has "absolutely no desire" to stop customers to report faults.

surprisingly personal attacks

The continuous blog criticizing Niedermeyer - the Daily Kanban writer who first covered the issue - in a personal surprise attack. He described it as "the same gentle soul who has already written a blog called Tesla Death Watch", and even suggested that Niedermeyer can "have some financial thing to gain by negatively affecting the stock price of Tesla."

Tesla can certainly worry about the shorting its stock (CEO Elon Musk has warned investors earlier this month), but it is surprising to see a large company personally attacking a journalist like this.

As for the lack of suspension which led to the original article Daily Kanban Tesla says it was a "very unusual use case." The S model in question had more than 70,000 miles on the clock, and the owner "lives down a long dirt road that it took two tow trucks to recover the truck." Any other news on a potential default will have to wait NHTSA -. If he starts a formal investigation