{"id":9338,"date":"2021-02-24T13:28:22","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T11:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/?p=9338"},"modified":"2021-02-24T13:28:25","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T11:28:25","slug":"hyundai-to-replace-battery-systems-in-82000-electric-vehicles-globally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/2021\/02\/24\/hyundai-to-replace-battery-systems-in-82000-electric-vehicles-globally\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyundai to replace battery systems in 82,000 electric vehicles globally"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hyundai will replace battery systems in some 82,000 electric vehicles globally due to fire risks, a problem which combined with an earlier recall is likely to cost the automaker an estimated 900 million USD, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-hyundai-motor-electric-recall\/hyundai-motor-to-replace-battery-systems-in-costly-electric-car-recall-idUSKBN2AO0JS\">Reuters <\/a>reads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of the latest recall applies to its best-selling electric car, the Kona EV, which was first recalled in October for a software upgrade after a series of fires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But in January, one of the recalled vehicles caught fire and South Korean authorities launched a probe into whether the first recall had been adequate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LG Energy Solution, a division of LG Chem Ltd which manufactures the batteries, said in a statement that Hyundai Motor has misapplied LG\u2019s suggestion for fast-charging logic in Hyundai\u2019s battery management system and that the battery cell should not be seen as the direct cause of the fire risks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new recall applies to roughly 76,000 Kona EVs as well as some Ioniq EV and Elec City models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hyundai will replace battery systems in some 82,000 electric vehicles globally due to fire risks, a problem which combined with an earlier recall is likely to cost the automaker an estimated 900 million USD, Reuters reads. Most of the latest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9342,"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9338\/revisions\/9342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}