Similarly, in response to a series of car battery fires, instead of recalling the batteries, TSLA appears to have quietly issued a "software update" to the battery management system that has a side effect of reducing battery range. TSLA has chosen not to warn or compensate its customers for the decreased performance. Finally, to the surprise of nobody, documents in TSLA's SolarCity litigation unsealed in September showed that Elon Musk knowingly orchestrated a significant fraud by arranging the $2.6 billion acquisition at a time when SolarCity was insolvent. Musk and his family had a huge conflict of interest, but rather than properly recusing himself, Musk initiated the transaction and drove the process.