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VinFast Whistleblower Alleges Structural Flaws ‘Might Trigger Wheels To Come Off,’ Will get Fired


  • Hazar Denli labored for Tata Applied sciences, a consulting agency that did a lot of the chassis engineering work on Vinfast’s VF6, VF7, VF8 and VF9 fashions.
  • Denli claims he was fired and blacklisted after posting Reddit thread expressing critical security considerations about VinFast’s merchandise.
  • Denli claimed that VinFast’s suspension elements had been insufficient and susceptible to failure.

It’s an accepted undeniable fact that VinFast’s vehicles aren’t superb. The model has been plagued with missed supply dates, poor opinions, low gross sales and an alarming allegation that it has police detain critics of its merchandise in its residence nation. Now issues are going additional. Final week, an engineer chargeable for VinFast’s newest fashions claimed he was fired after an ask me something thread on Reddit. The engineer, Hazar Denli, grew to become actually involved concerning the high quality of the suspension elements on its fashions.

In response to reporting from the BBC, Denli grew to become involved with VinFast’s strategy to hurry and deadlines, insisting that the model was slicing corners with its product, significantly with improvement on the VF6 and VF7 crossovers which were slowly making their approach out of Vietnam, and into new markets. As an illustration, Denli stated that elements wore out 5 instances as rapidly throughout validation testing as they need to have; some elements solely lasted as little at 15,000 miles when they need to have gone for 95,000 miles. Troublingly, Denli stated this untimely put on may result in a lack of management of the autos.

“We noticed, for instance, the entrance strut-to-knuckle connection was loosening, which could possibly be extraordinarily harmful,” Denli informed the BBC. “It may trigger a loosening of your entire construction that might trigger wheels to return off.

Denli says that JLR (Jaguar Land Rover) conspired with its dad or mum group Tata Group, alongside VinFast, who found out who made the Reddit thread. When Denli was recognized, he was subsequently terminated and his title was blacklisted in an business recruiting software program, the BBC says. Remember the fact that VinFast’s IPO paperwork revealed that Tata Applied sciences (a part of Tata Group) did a lot of the chassis engineering for all of VinFast’s fashions, aside from the VF3 and VF5.

That is very regarding, and provides onto current issues for the automaker. An accident involving a VinFast VF8 is already underneath investigation by the Nationwide Freeway Visitors Security Administration. On, April 24, 2024 a VF8 struck a tree, and caught hearth, killing the household of 4 inside. Denli’s claims monitor with the earlier reporting we’ve executed at InsideEVs. Earlier this 12 months, we reported on Sonnie Tran, a Vietnamese blogger who was vital of Vinfast’s merchandise in his residence nation. Tran alleged that VinFast used the police to harass him, even arresting him and threatening jail time if he didn’t take his criticism down.



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Proper now, VinFast has delivered on its promise to supply the VF3 via VF9, no less than in Vietnam. All of those fashions are on sale, and the model plans to export them to new markets. Only a few weeks in the past one of many alleged autos of concern, the VinFast VF6, was formally placed on sale in a handful European international locations. VinFast nonetheless plans to promote these vehicles within the U.S. by 2026. 

We will probably be watching with curiosity and concern as to how this may play out. The Vinfast VF8 has 28 complaints in accordance with the NHTSA. Denli is attempting to carry JLR to an employment tribunal, claiming he had executed nothing improper. 

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