Hyundai recalls more than 145,000 Ioniq and Genesis EVs that can lose power while driving

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Hyundai is recalling implicit 145,000 Ioniq and Genesis vehicles owed to a 12-volt artillery charging contented that could origin the EVs to suffer thrust powerfulness and summation the hazard of a crash.

NHTSA says the origin is the vehicles' Integrated Charging Control Unit (ICCU), which is apt to get damaged owed to an interior electrical fault.

Upon nonaccomplishment of the ICCU, a bid of operator warnings appear, and the conveyance activates a “fail-safe” driving mode that dilatory reduces thrust powerfulness implicit the people of 20 to 40 minutes.

Hyundai volition instruct owners to instrumentality affected vehicles to dealerships to regenerate the ICCU and its associated fuse and instal caller bundle to forestall overvoltage that could harm the portion again. Hyundai told NHTSA that arsenic of November 2nd, “the improved ICCU bundle was implemented arsenic a accumulation moving change” for the vehicles.

Affected models see 2022-2024 Ioniq 5, 2023-2025 Ioniq 6, 2023-2025 Genesis GV60, 2023-2025 Genesis GV70 (Electrified), and 2023-2024 Genesis G80. Hyundai volition notify owners of affected vehicles via message starting successful January and volition supply reimbursements for out-of-pocket expenses related to this recall.

These aren’t the archetypal Hyundai EVs to get a wide recall. In 2021, over 80,000 Kona EVs were recalled owed to a occurrence risk caused by an LG artillery defect aft reports of a twelve artillery fires.

Other electrical vehicles person gone done akin recalls regarding powerfulness nonaccomplishment before, including the Porsche Taycan, Lucid Air, Ford Mustang Mach-E, and the now-defunct Fisker Ocean.

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