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Electric car maker Tesla announced on late Tuesday night that it’s voluntarily recalled about 800 of its Model S cars due to a potentially weak bracket holding the left hand, second row seat. These were cars that were made between May 10, 2013 and June 8, 2013, and the company emphasized in the announcement that there were no customer complaints and no injuries and that no regulatory body had brought the default to Tesla’s attention. Tesla delivered around 7,500 Model S cars to customers in North America for the quarter that ended March 31, 2013, and is on a production schedule of making 400 cars per week. So say Tesla has delivered 12,000 (that’s about 400 a week since March 31) then 800 cars recalled is less than 7 percent of the cars. That’s just my back of the envelope math, but basically the recall was small. Also the faulty part isn’t in a dangerous area like the battery or drivetrain. It’s not unusual for car companies — young and old — to do minor recalls. Tesla will pick up all of the affected cars, provide a loaner car if needed, and bring back the car with the reinforced seat bracket a few hours later, the company says. Tesla’s stock was only down 1.44 percent in after hour trading, but I’ll update this if that changes. Related research and analysis from GigaOM Pro:Subscriber content. Sign up for a free trial.Flash analysis: the Fisker debacle and its implications on investing, innovation, and government incentivesBuilding energy management systems: overview and forecastCleantech first-quarter 2013 analysis and outlook

Tesla Motors has announced a partial recall for some of its Model S vehicles due to a weakened mounting bracket for the left-hand latch of the rear seats. Elon Musk, CEO and Chairman of Tesla Motors, confirmed that a number of cars built between May 10 and June 8 this year could contain the defect. He said the weakened bracket “reduces our confidence” that the back of the left-hand seat would be protected and remain intact if the driver were to be involved in a road accident. It sounds rather ominous, but Musk was keen to emphasize that the mounting bracket is still welded to the car and that the company is not aware of any injuries caused as a result. In addition, there have been no customer complaints filed in relation to the issue. “As designed, the striker bracket is both bonded and welded to the vehicle body, either one of which would be sufficient by itself,” Musk said today in a blog post. “This is consistent with the primary design goal of the Model S, which is first and foremost to maximize safety. However, we discovered that, due to body side alignment adjustments in the factory, the bonded section of the joint was compromised and the welded section of the joint was weakened in some cars.” Tesla Motors will now reinforce the bracket on cars built during the affected period. The company says that this work has already been carried out on cars that were sill in the factory, meaning that the recall only applies to Model S cars delivered between mid-May and early June. The recall is the first of its kind since Tesla Motors launched its new service and warranty program in April this year. There are a number of new perks for car owners, such as the ability to pick up another Model S on loan while their car is in service. Tesla also offers a valet service, which means that someone from the firm will come and pick up the car when it needs to be taken in for repair. The loan vehicle will be dropped off too and when the servicing is done, Tesla will return the original car for free. Tesla Motors is a Silicon Valley-based company that designs and builds premium electric cars. Both the Model S and Model X differ from previous eco-friendly car projects, however, because they both offer competitive performance in an attractive outer chassis. Musk revealed in early May that he had been in talks with Google to develop an ‘autopilot’ function for some of his company’s vehicles. The efforts of the partnership are yet to materialize, but it does suggest that Tesla Motors is looking to innovate in even more unusual ways. Image Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Today, HTC unveiled two new smartphones as it competes with rivals Apple and Samsung: the Desire 200, an inexpensive Android-powered device, and the Butterfly S, a top-tier handset on par with the company’s flagship HTC One. Details regarding the two devices had been widely speculated, and were officially disclosed today at a press conference curiously held in Yilan, a beach town about one hour from Taipei. As reported by Engadget, the Butterfly S device features a 5-inch 1080p display, HTC’s Sense 5 UI, front-facing BoomSound stereo speakers – making this device, along with the HTC One, top quality when it comes to audio. The smartphone runs Android Jelly Bean on a quad-core 1.9GHZ Snapdragon 600, a startlingly long-lasting 3,200mAh battery, quad-band HSPA/WCDMA radio, 2GB of RAM and 16GB of storage. It also has an UltraPixel Camera, Zoe software features, as well as a 2.1-megapixel wide-angle camera on the device’s front-facing side. Photos of the phone leaked last week. The BoomSound speakers are quite visible and recall those on the HTC One. The company also unveiled the new low-end Desire 200, the details of which were revealed yesterday. Launched in collaboration with Taiwan carrier Chunghua Telecom, HTC apparently took deliberate measures to keep the launch of the devices as quiet as possible. Access was given almost exclusively to local media outlets, who were bused to the event from the capital. Engadget reports that the Butterfly S phone will retail for NT $22,900 (roughly $766), while the Desire 200 will sell for NT $4990 (roughly $165). There’s no word yet on subsequent launches in Asia or internationally. Despite earning $970 million in revenue in May, its best monthly sales figure in about one year, HTC has lately been struggling financially. In Q4 of 2014 the firm brought in a mere $34 million in net profits, its lowest since 2004, and Q1 of 2013 didn’t fare much better. Sales of HTC one, the company’s flagship smartphone, reached 5 million one month after its launch, while rival Samsung’s  Galaxy S4 reached double that amount within the same time period. Update: HTC just posted a preview for the Butterfly S on YouTube.

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