A hearth security danger has been recognized in additional than 200 new electrical autos, with Audi recalling the mannequin for pressing repairs.
The federal transport division issued a recall for the Audi e-Tron GT autos on Thursday resulting from a security concern involving their battery housing.
The security alert comes one week after Tesla skilled considered one of its greatest electrical automobile recollects so far, involving greater than 4300 autos, although the difficulty was addressed with a software program replace.
Audi’s recall impacts 222 fashions offered between 2022 and 2023, and entails the sealing round automobile batteries.
“On account of a producing concern, the sealing of the high-voltage battery housing might cut back over time, permitting moisture to enter,” the recall stated.
“The moisture might doubtlessly lead to {an electrical} brief circuit growing the chance of fireside.”
Audi is predicted to contact house owners to rearrange repairs to the automobile.
The Australian recall comes months after the German automaker flagged the difficulty within the US, the place it warned about three per cent of its autos might be affected by the water concern.
Regardless of widespread considerations about electrical automobile fires, nonetheless, EV Firesafe chief government Emma Sutcliffe stated there had been solely six confirmed EV fires in Australia so far.
One had been resulting from arson, three resulting from an exterior fireplace, one resulting from a collision and one other resulting from street particles that pierced its battery again.
“In none of those circumstances have been the autos on cost, which is an efficient factor for us to know,” she stated.
However Sutcliffe urged all motorists with vehicles topic to recall to contact their vendor as quickly as attainable.
The Audi recall comes only one week after market chief Tesla was pressured to concern a recall discover for 4382 of its Mannequin Y and Mannequin 3 autos in Australia resulting from a steering wheel concern that might happen “when working the automobile in chilly temperatures”.
The corporate issued a software program repair for automobile house owners to obtain and set up.
AAP