Whistleblowers reveal serious flaws: Is my Tesla a safety risk?

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Just a few years ago Tesla was the “car of the future”. The cars coming out of the factories of multi-billionaire Elon Musk (52) fueled the transition from gasoline engines to electric cars and further escalated the big automobile companies. However, Tesla has been criticized for months.

Now a new trouble is coming from Sweden. Tesla employees assured the newspaper “Dagens Arbete” that the company had put them under great time pressure for repair work. Replacing reflective lamps should not take more than three minutes. Technicians have a maximum of one hour to fix the problem.

This is usually very little. However, those who cannot achieve productivity targets have no chance of receiving a wage increase or promotion. The result: “We’re still shipping cars,” says one employee.

So it’s not always completely repairable. A potential safety risk for Tesla drivers themselves and other road users.

Tesla does not tolerate criticism

It is clear that employees only testified anonymously in the newspaper. The example of Polish car mechanic Lukasz Krupski is a deterrent.

On March 30, 2019, Krupski prevented something worse from happening by extinguishing a battery fire at the Tesla factory in Lillestrøm (Norway). He received praise from Elon Musk himself. However, Krupski later complained to his employer about the dangerous working conditions, as he described in the Norwegian newspaper “Dagens Naeringsliv”. The list of flaws is difficult: inadequately trained workers, missing tools, inadequate maintenance of lifting platforms, inadequate safety measures for personnel and more. But Krupski fell on deaf ears.

So he accessed Tesla’s internal documents, which were also poorly secured, and published them. Tesla talked about data theft and hired informants on Krupski. The company then offered to drop all legal claims if it deleted the data. Krupski rejected the offer and has been in a legal battle with Tesla ever since.

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But it’s not just whistleblowers from Scandinavia. Automobile journalists criticize Tesla’s new models for not thinking enough about safety.

Example: the new Tesla Plaid, which has over 1000 hp but has almost no good brakes and poor damping. “Between genius and madness,” says Blick. Tesla’s Cybertruck? Failure. Self-driving Tesla models? Cause accidents and lawsuits in San Francisco. At the same time, there are criticisms about the working conditions of X, which also belongs to Elon Musk.

Tesla has not yet commented on the claims from Sweden. Meanwhile, Elon Musk prefers to talk about his latest work, the artificial intelligence platform Grok. Although Tesla shares have rebounded from the crash at the beginning of the year, some investors want Musk to focus more on Tesla, his “core business.”

Source :Blick