Porsche Taycan and Audi E-Tron GT electrical vehicles are being recalled to deal with a battery-sealant subject.
The 2 EVs are based mostly on the identical J1 platform and share many main parts—together with battery sealant. Each Porsche and Audi switched to a Teroson sealant in the course of the interval when the affected vehicles have been produced, and it could have been utilized in inadequate quantities across the battery pack, in keeping with paperwork filed to the Nationwide Freeway Site visitors Security Administration (NHTSA). That “can permit liquid to build up within the battery.”
The recall covers 4,777 Taycans constructed between Sept. 23, 2022, and Aug. 3, 2023, and 1,899 E-Tron GT automobiles constructed between that begin date and Aug. 28, 2023. All automobiles constructed earlier than and after these dates are unaffected.
2023 Audi E-Tron GT
The NHTSA estimates that 3% of the affected automobiles have the battery-sealant defect. The recall inhabitants consists of most Taycan variants, encompassing the sedan and Cross Turismo/Sport Turismo wagon physique kinds. Each the bottom E-Tron GT and the RS E-Tron GT efficiency mannequin are included within the recall as nicely.
“Sellers will take a look at the battery for leakage and change the battery as vital, freed from cost,” in keeping with the NHTSA. So it appears some house owners could find yourself with new battery packs. It is unclear of a selected provider is on the hook right here, but when giant numbers of battery packs have to be changed, this might flip into a really costly mistake.
These fashions have been among the many first to have 800-volt charging, however the subject has nothing to do with that. They’re additionally not the primary EVs to be recalled for a battery-sealant subject.
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The GMC Hummer EV was additionally recalled final 12 months for battery sealing issues, on this case as a result of surfaces to which the sealant was utilized weren’t correctly prepped, which means the sealant did not stick nicely sufficient. And Audi’s E-Tron SUV was recalled in 2019 for what appears like an analogous subject. At the moment the automaker warned that the situation might trigger “a thermal occasion.”
It is fairly a special battery subject than the recollects of packs utilizing LG Vitality Answer cells in various fashions, most of which look like associated to the cells themselves—and in some circumstances together with the Chevrolet Bolt EV involving manufacturing points. That led to a $1.9 billion fee to Basic Motors to assist cowl the recall prices—with many Bolt EV consumers getting new automobiles.