Tesla's Cybertruck disaster: Insider reveals 'serious safety issues' behind scenes of EV rollout - as drone footage shows hundreds of unfinished trucks backed up at Texas factory

If you have details about these incidents or similar safety issues, please get in touch with the author at [email protected] Customer reports that Tesla has halted deliveries for its futuristic Cybertruck amid allegedly dangerous safety issues with its gas pedal come as no surprise to one former insider. Customer reports that Tesla has halted deliveries for its futuristic Cybertruck amid alleged safety issues with its gas pedal come as no surprise to ex-Tesla automotive engineer and auto safety whistleblower Cristina Balan. 'After I left, it got worse,' Balan told DailyMail.com With new drone videos emerging showing full fleets of unfinished Cybertruck's backed up over parts concerns, Balan told DailyMail.com that Tesla engineers, just like she once was, may be struggling to get leadership to take safety seriously Balan, who joined Tesla's Fremont, California, factory in 2010 as a senior computer-aided design engineer, is now battling Tesla in court over what she describes as retaliation for her efforts to correct a dangerous issue with the Tesla Model S. Poorly made floor mats, according to Balan, showed a tendency to curl underneath the all-electric Tesla sedan's brake pedals preventing drivers from slowing down their vehicles, not unlike the recent issue that jams Cybertruck pedals into full speed. Above, Cristina Balan signing the first cover of the Tesla Model S, back when she worked at the EV-maker's Fremont, California factory In 2024, some Tesla customers have received text messages from the company saying it is cancelling their Cybertruck 'delivery appointment' due to an 'unexpected delay' as the firm waits for Cybertruck replacement parts to come in 'People, good engineers, they are afraid to say something is wrong,' Balan said, 'because they know that they will go on the same track I was.' And one performance review for Balan's at Tesla reads 'she is often consulted by engineers from various departments when they come upon perplexing design and CAD challenges' Balan was effectively released from portions of her forced arbitration agreement in June 2019, when a US District Court judge in Seattle, Marsha J. Pechman, said that her defamation and libel case against Tesla could proceed in federal court.