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On May 17, 2021, Tesla was ordered to pay 136,000 kroner ($14,970 at the current exchange rate) to 30 Norwegian customers affected by the software updates 2019.16.1 or 2019.16.2. These OTA (over-the-air) updates capped the voltage of Model S and Model X battery pack cells, making supercharging much slower and restricting range. According to the Norwegian newspaper DN (Dagens Næringsliv), that sentence was confirmed.

NHTSA has been accused multiple times of being too slow or too lenient with car manufacturers – or both. The organization’s latest answer on an investigation petition will raise even more criticism based on the same principles: speed and accuracy. NHTSA denied a request to investigate Tesla battery packs due to a possible fire risk.

Tesla always claims that combustion-engined fires are more common than those with electric vehicles. However, the company has been collecting more and more cases of Model S, and Model X spontaneous fires all over the world and in the U.S. in particular. After a Model X caught fire in Luxembourg at a Tesla Service Center, a Model S did the same in the back of the Marietta Service Center, in Georgia.