Blog Tesla Settles Suit Over Model S Battery Voltage Reduction

Tesla has agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle a lawsuit claiming a software update reduced maximum battery voltage in 1,743 Model S sedans.

The settlement will amount to pay out $625 to each owner affected. 

Tesla has also attempted to fix the issue for owners. A Reuters report said the voltage limitation was temporary, with a 10% reduction lasting about 3 months, and a smaller 7% reduction lasting another 7 months before the corrective update was released in March 2020.

The report quoted settlement documents where Tesla data shows 1,552 vehicles had maximum battery voltage fully restored and 57 have had battery replacements and for other vehicles, the maximum voltage should continue to be restored over time, the settlement documents said.

The suite was originally filed in 2019. Of the $1.5 million settlement, $410,000 will be used to pay attorney fees.

 

[Cape Coddess]

Is the 90D included? Seems like mine was throttled for a year or so but it came back up a bit recently.

 

[glide]

“Tesla has also attempted to fix the issue for owners”

Bull. Shitt.

I wound up selling my car because Tesla refused to do anything to fix it and it became absolutely useless except for driving around town.

Hopefully former owners will be compensate. I have 6+ Service tickets in my vehicle history for the issue.

 

[WhiteWi]

Let’s hear all the haters say but but my Tesla still has reduced range. And apparently it’s mostly bs. Next

 

[glide]

Let’s hear all the haters say but but my Tesla still has reduced range. And apparently it’s mostly bs. Next

They are still reduced. Are you impacted by chargegate? Sounds like you’re not. Next.

 

[WhiteWi]

They are still reduced. Are you impacted by chargegate? Sounds like you’re not. Next.

I have normal degradation on 16 S

 

[tpoltron]

Much slower road tripping was the biggest reason we recently sold our 2014 S. I expect that Tesla will somehow weasel out of paying a bunch of us (only for current owners or some such) just like they did for 3rd party emmc repairs that they clearly said they would cover.

 

[glide]

I have normal degradation on 16 S

So you weren’t impacted by anything being discussed in this thread. Next.

 

[ucmndd]

They are still reduced. Are you impacted by chargegate? Sounds like you’re not. Next.

This settlement has literally nothing to do with reduced supercharging speeds. Next.

 

[KyleDay]

Apparently this suit is for only 1,700 tesla model S cars. Seems very low

 

[glide]

Love all the fanbois in this thread.

“it’s no big deal. Only impacted a few thousand $130K cars.”

or

“it’s no big deal. They are going to pay you $600 after 3 years of telling you to **** off and there’s nothing wrong with your car.”

This is a case of Tesla WILLFULLY crippling vehicles and LYING to customers (especially early adopters) about it. IMO they should be paying A LOT more to impacted owners.

 

[WhiteWi]

Love all the fanbois in this thread.

“it’s no big deal. Only impacted a few thousand $130K cars.”

or

“it’s no big deal. They are going to pay you $600 after 3 years of telling you to **** off and there’s nothing wrong with your car.”

This is a case of Tesla WILLFULLY crippling vehicles and LYING to customers (especially early adopters) about it. IMO they should be paying A LOT more to impacted owners.

It was temporary thing read the article

 

[hill]

“Tesla has also attempted to fix the issue for owners”

Bull. Shitt.

I wound up selling my car because Tesla refused to do anything to fix it and it became absolutely useless except for driving around town.

Hopefully former owners will be compensate. I have 6+ Service tickets in my vehicle history for the issue.

what? you mean the SC that told us, "that's normal" lied?
ha - who knew

"... They are still reduced. Are you impacted by chargegate? Sounds like you’re not. Next. ...."

he joined this year. the pixi dust hasnt yet met reality. Wait 'till his half shafts begin to shudder.

.

 

[WhiteWi]

what? you mean the SC that told us, "that's normal" lied?
ha - who knew

he joined this year. the pixi dust hasnt yet met reality. Wait 'till his half shafts begin to shudder.

.

Only reason I joined this forum is bc official one was closed down.

 

[glide]

It was temporary thing read the article

You have no idea what you are talking about.

I can link an article saying that Trump is going to be re-installed as president next week. Doesn’t make it true. But it does make the people who believe it foolish.

 

[WhiteWi]

You have no idea what you are talking about.

I can link an article saying that Trump is going to be re-installed as president next week. Doesn’t make it true. But it does make the people who believe it foolish.

If it is not true why is payout only for 1.7 k cars?

 

[tpoltron]

If it is not true why is payout only for 1.7 k cars?

Probably Tesla’s way of minimizing their payout. As a settlement maybe they agreed something like ’we will compensate owners who suffered an instant range drop greater than 15%’. Unfortunately as ucmndd notes this is unlikely to help those of us who were more affected by reduced charging speeds. By not being explicit on the criteria Tesla gets a lot of wiggle room to deny claims.

Its sad to see Tesla burn off so much good will among us early supporters.

 

[WhiteWi]

Probably Tesla’s way of minimizing their payout. As a settlement maybe they agreed something like ’we will compensate owners who suffered an instant range drop greater than 15%’. Unfortunately as ucmndd notes this is unlikely to help those of us who were more affected by reduced charging speeds. By not being explicit on the criteria Tesla gets a lot of wiggle room to deny claims.

Its sad to see Tesla burn off so much good will among us early supporters.

It looks like range drop was as low as 11%. Don’t know where you got your 15% claim out.

 

[ucmndd]

Probably Tesla’s way of minimizing their payout. As a settlement maybe they agreed something like ’we will compensate owners who suffered an instant range drop greater than 15%’.

Sorta, but not exactly. Tesla knows precisely how many cars were affected because they specifically identified a set of cars with a given set of hardware/conditions and artificially capped their battery to address an issue. Later software updates addressed said issue and restored the range.

The lawsuit is very specific, covering exactly this situation and the associated range loss. It has absolutely nothing to do with slow supercharging speeds or anything else.

 

[Doanster1]

Let’s see if I get notified. Range of 241 was rock steady for a couple years. Dropped to 230 after the update, so not as bad as 11%. Honestly have not charged to 100% since then because the coolant heater pump running full bore (for me anyway) post-90% made it a wash. Will have to do so soon and see if any of the range has indeed been restored. Not even sure if I can get to 100%. Reviewed snapshots/screen grabs and the last time I set it to 100%, it stopped at 98%…