Volkswagen has recalled greater than 40,000 of its ID.4 electrical SUVs for one of many worst causes possible: danger of battery fireplace.
There are literally a number of separate remembers happening right here, in keeping with the Nationwide Freeway Site visitors Security Administration (NHTSA), however they’re all very related. First, 43,881 Volkswagen ID.4 autos, produced from Sept. 2, 2022 to Apr. 10, 2025, have been recalled. “In uncommon circumstances,” the NHTSA says, “the high-voltage battery modules could expertise a thermal propagation, probably leading to a car fireplace.”
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The problem stems from shifted electrodes within the automobiles’ batteries, which might trigger a brief circuit, leading to a fireplace. To make issues worse, there are a number of related however separate points that would trigger battery fireplace right here, with some ID.4 automobiles being extra in danger than others.
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For homeowners with affected autos, Volkswagen will “conduct a battery well being test inspection and set up up to date SDD software program on autos inside this marketing campaign, and can change doubtlessly affected HV battery cell modules,” free of charge.
An extra 670 VW ID.4 autos, mannequin years 2023 and 2024, had been recalled in January attributable to misaligned electrodes within the batteries, which might once more trigger car fireplace. Plus, 311 autos had been recalled in December final yr over an analogous situation.
This is not only a theoretical drawback; a number of autos really caught fireplace due to it. For 1,299 Volkswagen ID.4 EVs manufactured between Nov. 3, 2022, and Sept. 22, 2024, Volkswagen recommends that homeowners park the automobiles outdoors as a substitute of in a storage, and cost them solely on AC gradual chargers.
European homeowners of ID.4 autos might be comfortable to know that this situation solely impacts American-made ID.4s, whose batteries had been produced by SK Battery America, in its U.S. plant in Georgia. The Volkswagen ID.4 automobiles that had been manufactured in Europe don’t exhibit the identical situation.
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