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Off the top of my head JLR will be able to check the brakes for any signs of excessive wear or damage to the brakes and they can also get a good idea of how many vehicles have actually been affected. You can't do that with an over the air software update. But then JLR are just a traditional car manufacturer with years of experience, but only just starting to build sell ev, unlike Tesla, so JLR are obviously doing it wrong.
No one has said a manufacturer has to make monthly statements. Another person as well as myself has pointed out the correct course of action to you, but all you can do is make silly pathetic statements and accusations of assumptions. It is a simple logical step towards fault correction as well collecting data to determine how widespread a problem is and or whether it has had an adverse effect on something else on the car. All that information goes into ensuring that less fault occur in the future. It isn't an assumption, it is a statement of fact. I would hope Tesla are indeed doing their research properly and to do so will require a full recall but other than the software update and saying they will send a team to China, nothing more has been said. A quick Google on EV fires throws up just two manufacturer names, Tesla and the leading Chinese EV manufacturer. But industry experts feel that not only could Tesla be affecting their own reputation and sales but that of other EV cars as well.
Tesla have the most prolific fire rate for EV's so to say fires are rare and that ice vehicles catch fire all the time is a stupid statement to make. A vehicle can catch fire for any number of reasons, most will be down to poor maintenance or something not fitted properly during servicing. But if it is down to a common flaw in the vehicle, it is how a manufacturer responds to it.
A few ice vehicles had caught fire as a result of the coolant degas pipe hardening over time and fracturing allowing coolant to escape and the engine to overheat. On some vehicles this meant a blown head gasket and oil getting onto the hot exhaust resulting in fires. All cars concerned are subject to a recall, a new degas pipe is fitted regardless and an additional temperature sensor fitted in the cylinder head to shut the engine down to prevent any further catastrophic failures should something similar happen again. Signs of failure can also be checked at the same time and fed back to the manufacturer so data can be filed and used in the future.
Another car requiring a software update on a clutch problem. If it were possible a software update could be carried out over the air, but with the recall the car can be checked over for signs of the failure and the manufacturer advised of any such failures.
Let's put it another way. Mr Smith has a Tesla Model S that has recieved it's battery management software update over the air but has another 9 months before his next service. Unknown to Mr Smith and Tesla, his battery has already started to fail prior to the update and was just on the verge of total failure and catching fire. The software update that is perfectly fine on a healthy battery is just going to delay a fire on Mr Smith's battery however. 6 months down the line his battery finally can't hold out any longer, and bursts into flames. In the Chinese video it was fortunate that no people were walking past at the time or sat in the adjacent cars. Mr Smith, his family or anyone in the cars vicinity may not be so fortunate. But that's ok, according to you EV are the future and can set new standards on how to do things.
So now you are saying a fully charged battery weighs more than an 80% charged battery. I have heard it all now.
