Everyone soon will be pointing and laughing at Tesla, as the worst car company in history.

The problem is a faulty drive unit inverter, which stranded a Cybertruck at the end of July. Tesla says it started investigating the problem a week later and by late October arrived at the conclusion that it had made a bad batch of inverters that it used in production vehicles from November 6, 2023, until July 30, 2024. After a total of five failures and warranty claims that the company says “may be related to the condition,” Tesla issued a recall.

This is long overdue. Complaints about the drive unit are well known. Note that Tesla waited from July until now to announce the problem, yet they obviously stopped using “bad batch” drive units after July 30th. Why the inefficiency?