Cybertruck Charging Failures Mount, Tesla Avoids Recall
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- Cybertruck owners are losing Level 2 home AC charging due to Power Conversion System (PCS) failures, with forum reports spanning under 10,000 to 31,250 miles and some trucks failing a second time after a full replacement.
- A Cybertruck Owners Club poll of 223 voters found 91 (40.8%) had their PCS replaced under warranty and 15 (6.7%) suspected a failure, with separate active threads logging new failures weekly.
- Tesla is replacing failed units case-by-case without issuing a recall, with parts on multi-week backorder—one owner reported an 8-week wait—while a firmware update enables free Supercharging as a stopgap.
- Tesla dropped out-of-warranty repair pricing from $5,000–$7,200 to roughly $1,000 as a "goodwill" gesture and added a 7-year/70,000-mile PCS warranty for 2026 Cybertrucks, but neither applies retroactively to early 2024–2025 Foundation Series trucks still on basic 50,000-mile coverage.
- Hyundai and Kia extended warranties for owners after similar ICCU power-conversion failures, a contrast to Tesla's forward-only coverage that leaves the earliest and most-exposed Cybertruck buyers unprotected.
- In late 2024, Tesla recalled over 2,000 Cybertrucks for inverter MOSFET failures—the same type of power-electronics issue now appearing in the PCS—while the current PCS failures have produced no NHTSA notification.
Why it matters: Tesla's "goodwill" cut from a $5,000–$7,200 repair to roughly $1,000 is functionally a defect admission, but the company is dodging the public paper trail a recall creates—leaving the most-exposed early 2024–2025 Foundation Series buyers on basic 50,000-mile coverage while newer 2026 trucks get an explicit 7-year/70,000-mile PCS warranty.
