Hello and welcome to the Friday October 4th

2019 edition of Tesla Daily on Official Tesla Podcast.

My name is Rob Maower.

Today we're talking about a developing situation involving some software limitations applied

to older model SNX vehicles.

As a reminder, I am recording this a little bit earlier than normal so the market is still open but as I'm recording

Tesla is down 1% to $230.59 cents which compares to the NASDAQ up about 1%.

All right so the news that we have today

is a petition that was filed earlier this week

on Tuesday by the Office of Defex Investigations

to NHTSA, the National Highway Traffic

and Safety Administration, regarding some Model S and Model X vehicles

generally from 2013 to 2015, though the petition actually lists 2012 to 2019 regarding some software limitations

that Tesla placed on some of these vehicles. I'll read the summary of the

petition here and then I'll provide a little bit more detail. So quote, on

September 19th, 2019, the Office of Defects Investigation, ODI, received

a defect petition dated September 17th, 2019, requesting that NHTSA initiate a defect investigation of certain Tesla Model S and Model X

vehicles that received revised battery management software in one or more over-the-air updates

from Tesla, beginning in May 2019.

The petitioner alleges that the software updates were in response to a potential defect that could

result in non-crash fires in the affected battery packs and that Tesla should have notified NHTSA of the existence of this potential defect and conducted a safety recall.

The petitioner also alleges that this software update reduces the driving range of the affected vehicles."

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