Consumer reports: Tesla Model s "a minor issue"-Tesla, Model s EV-IT news Consumer reports: Tesla Model s "small problems"

United States consumer reports magazine said on Monday that despite Tesla's Model s vehicles remain popular, but there are some "minor problems".

Top Model s unique exterior door handles. By design, when a motorist near the car, and when touching the handle, flush with the door handles should be automatically ejected. However, this feature can sometimes fail. However, Tesla has through an over-the-air software update to address this issue.

When the car reaches 12,000 miles (about 19,300 kilometers) when the maintenance period, controls the screen will turn black. Although in the other car, which simply means loss of navigation and audio selection information, but for Tesla, controlled in screen has a lot of key features. Tesla's repair center has solved this problem, repair the abnormal sound of the roof. In addition, the trunk of the same flawed Model s.

Consumer reports said that prior to the Model s owners feedback to its annual report, they are not ready to lower the car's reliability rating: current rating of "average". However, according to the consumer reports tests before, the reliability of the Model s as a whole well, and is still one of the best new cars.

Tesla CEO Yilong·masike (Elon Musk) in a conference call with analysts last month acknowledged some of the problems. "We at first there are some quality issues," he said, largely because the company is "exploring how to produce Model s".

He said that there is problem with vibration in the car, mainly because the internal circuits not tied well, this problem is easy to solve. He also said that there are many cars need to use shims to resolve another problem associated with the differential.

Cars.com Model s have been tested before also pointed out problems with the car, including door handles failures mentioned above. The site also pointed out that the Model s noise happens when the skylight is closed, and when the turn signal is running normal, system will prompt the turn signal failure.

Musk said Tesla engineers hold meetings every week, their goal was to produce a "lifetime maintenance-free" car.