Tesla, whose stock value now rivals GM's, has not issued safety recalls despite numerous reports of its Model S (above) suddenly losing power. Instead, repairs after the potentially dangerous incidents have been described as “updates” allowing the vehicles to "benefit from the latest generation components.”
From NewCartographer.com:
Concealing the potential for a defect to cause a vehicle stall is well outside the norms of US auto safety reporting. [The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration] has considered such a fundamental loss of performance to have intrinsic safety implications since the 1970s and between 2004 and 2013, some 91 recalls were carried out to address defects that caused stalling. One of these was even for an electric vehicle: in November of 2013, Ford recalled its Focus Electric car for a problem involving a sudden loss of power that was eerily similar to Tesla's contactor issue. Even closer to home, both of Tesla's (now-former) automaker partners, Mercedes and Toyota, have recently recalled their Tesla-powered vehicles for sudden losses of drive power.
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