2023 TESLA MODEL 3 — Complaint #1904266
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NHTSA Complaint about ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:PROPULSION SYSTEM:INVERTER filed June 23, 2023
NHTSA complaint #1904266 (ODI reference 11528471) concerns a 2023 TESLA MODEL 3 and was filed on June 23, 2023. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 8, 2021. The report was geocoded to Minnesota based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as electrical system:propulsion system:inverter, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same TESLA MODEL 3 cohort independently describe similar electrical system:propulsion system:inverter failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2023 TESLA MODEL 3 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
2023 TESLA MODEL 3 -The attached letters are for a Defect Petition. January 8, 2021, NHTSA denied a defect petition alleging 232 complaints of sudden unintended acceleration (SUA) in Tesla vehicles. Petitioner has sent updates which include a detail abstract with design details, along with 3 Defect Petition to Recall docs.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1904266 |
| ODI Number | 11528471 |
| Date Filed | June 23, 2023 |
| Failure Date | January 8, 2021 |
| VIN | 99999999999 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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