There are battery problems on the platform that Kia and Hyundai jointly use for the electric cars EV6 and Ioniq 5/6. 400,000 cars may be affected.
Hyundai and Kia may have problems with the 12-volt batteries for 400,000 cars. It is the management of the batteries that it is crazy about.
This is the warning from the EU's Safety Gate warning system.
Specifically, it is the control unit called the ICCU, which controls the charging of the 12-volt starter battery in the cars, which weakens over time due to high voltage and constant variations in temperatures.
If there is a fault in the control unit, it can ultimately mean that the battery in the electric cars cannot be charged at all and are therefore useless.
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At Hyundai, it is the Ioniq 5 and Ioniq 6 models that it is crazy about. A total of 155,760 cars are currently being recalled.
At sister brand Kia, the error on the control unit may have stuck in even more cars. Therefore, 224,752 cars must now go to the workshop. All the cars are built between 2021 and 2024.
According to Elbil24 , Hyundai/Kia states that a possible repair or replacement of the 12-volt batteries in the cars is something that the car brands bear. The recall therefore does not cost the owners as much as a penny if their cars are affected.
In fairness, it must be said that Kia/Hyundai are not the first to tinker with 12-volt batteries in electric cars.
In the past, Volkswagen has had to replace its 12-volt batteries in a number of ID.3s. The batteries simply ran out of power when the cars downloaded an update.
At home, 469 copies of the Hyundai Ioniq 5 have been sold in the course of the first seven months of the year, while 415 Kia EV6s have been given number plates in the same period.
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