Having noted that certain Model S and X vehicles from 2012 through 2018 have faulty flash memory chips, touch displays etc, Tesla was urged to recall 158,000 vehicles for potential safety concerns.

 The call has been made by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), after discovering the faults following the NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation.

With Tesla having produced around 1.5 million cars in its brief history, the company was never going to make the list of the largest recalls in history, since Ford had to recall 21 million vehicles in 1981 for a faulty powertrain that slipped out of the “park” position and rolled away causing thousands of accidents over the years. Back then, Ford found a cheap workaround solution to the problem, mailing out warning labels to 21 million owners rather than fixing the actual problem – a practice that seems unthinkable nowadays.