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Tesla $TSLA +0.14% is recalling 14,575 Model Y SUVs in the U.S. after a factory tool failed to confirm that each vehicle received a weight certification label, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Friday.
Federal regulations require each vehicle to carry a label showing its maximum loaded weight, tire specifications, and manufacture date — information Tesla places on the inside of the driver's side door. Without that label, NHTSA warned, drivers may not know the vehicle's load limits — a gap regulators say raises crash risk. As of the recall filing, Reuters reported that NHTSA had received no injury or crash complaints tied to the missing labels.
The affected vehicles were produced at Tesla's Fremont, California factory between Nov. 17, 2025 and April 21, 2026, according to Electrek. The root cause was a malfunctioning automated vision-scanning tool at the Fremont plant that had been unreliably verifying label installation throughout that production window. A missing label discovered on April 17 during a quality check led engineers to investigate and ultimately pin the failure on the scanning system. Tesla has repaired the scanning tool and introduced a human verification step on the line to prevent a recurrence. Tesla estimates that only about 45% of the 14,575 affected vehicles are actually missing the label, according to Electrek.
