[cyp0633]

A brief search in Chinese social media turns out:

- the cases are rare, once every several months

- the affected battery pack is usually replaced free of charge

- many of the cases are from Chinese in North America, and even one case is about imported Model 3

Considering Chinese media prefer reporting Tesla defects to gain more clicks, I would assume this is not a Shanghai-specific, broadly affecting problem.

[zamadatix]

I suppose that may depend how one defines a "broadly affecting problem". 2/3 (~2.9k) of the cases are for 2021 vehicles, and maybe it's possible those relate to specific batches shipped only to South Korea or something, but that still wouldn't explain the other 1/3 (~1.6k) of cases.

Tesla hasn't provided statistics about cases in the Chinese market, but I have a hard time believing it's really a handful of battery issues per year (regardless what one assumes of social media). That's just too far beyond any reasonable quality level expectation for ~half a million cars over the time period.

[nitwit005]

I have never considered posting to social media about automotive issues, unless something truly egregious happened that I felt I should warn people about. If you see complaints, it's probably fairly frequent.

[cyp0633]

That's you, not the common Chinese crowd - compared to a known problem of another good-selling car, I can say that Tesla problem is indeed rare.