Porsche to recall over 27,000 EVs in US over battery short circuit risk

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Porsche is recalling thousands of its Taycan electric vehicles over a possible short circuit risk that could cause a fire. The recall affects 27,527 Taycans built between October 21st, 2019, and February 1st, 2024, according to the NHTSA safety recall report.

The problem has been narrowed down to a cell block module in the LG Chem-produced batteries used in the Taycan. However, Porsche doesn’t actually know which cars have the problem and says it can’t get the analytics to check:

This recall (ARB6/ARB7) applies to a vehicle population for which Porsche currently has no positive knowledge that data anomalies exist in the high-voltage battery modules… Even if Porsche currently has no positive knowledge that data anomalies exist, Porsche…

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