As one of the most popular electric cars on the road today, there are more than 1.7 million models of this vehicle on roads and in driveways worldwide. First released in 2017, the Model 3 would become the world’s best-selling plug-in electric car by 2020 in the United States,

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration fired 4% of its workforce earlier this month, an individual with knowledge told Business Insider.

Federal investigators have known about the problem for some time—in 2023 NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation opened a preliminary inquiry after 12 reports of steering failures, including three Model 3s and nine Model Ys.