Despite being recalled and updated, three Jaguar i-Paces have burned up. The car brand therefore advises thousands of owners to park outside and not fully charge.
Jaguar thought it had found the solution when the i-Pace electric car was initially recalled due to a fire hazard in batteries.
But no. Now it has turned out that 3 cars, which Jaguar had otherwise updated after the recall, have nevertheless burned out.
Carscoops writes that.
All three cars are sold on the American market. But the i-Pace has been recalled across the board to have factory-fitted so-called diagnostic software to prevent overheating of the battery pack.
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But Jaguar has not done the job well enough. That is why the brand insists that i-Pace owners must park outside and avoid fully charging the battery pack. A piece of advice the owners already received in August last year. Read more about it here.
Information from the US road safety authorities, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, shows that another 2,760 have now received the more than a year old notice.
Jaguar also says that the cars must be parked outside and away from flammable material for 30 days after the diagnostic software has been installed.
In a statement on top of another recall from March this year, Jaguar writes that 'there is a safety risk associated with these battery packs and that it extends beyond what was previously thought.'
According to Carscoop, the issue is that the batteries that Jaguar has bought from the manufacturer LG have a tendency to short circuit in the cells that the batteries are made of.
Fires in electric and hybrid cars are fortunately extremely rare. But this does not mean that the risk should be taken less seriously. In Greece, they have even gone so far as to ban fully charged electric cars on all the country's ferries.
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