Last week, the company announced that it would call 25,564 Kona electric cars for service from the domestic market. According to Jonhap, 37,366 of the same cars in Europe and 11,137 in North America will also have to be inspected. There is no time schedule for convening in the manufacturer’s declaration.
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The South Korean Ministry of Transport said last week that the carmaker Hyundai was voluntarily calling cars because the battery could short-circuit and threatened to ignite.
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The problem does not concern cars from the Nošovice plant. “It’s not about our cars. We have another battery manufacturer. The call concerns cars manufactured before March 2020, which coincidentally is the date when Kona electric cars began production in our country in Nošovice, ”said Petr Michník from the Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Czech plant in Nošovice in the Frýdek-Místek region.
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The carmaker in Nošovice started serial production of the Kona Electric car in mid-March as the first electric car produced in the Czech Republic.
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LG Chem, which supplies batteries to Kona cars, said last week that defective batteries were not the cause of the ignition and that the cause had not been determined. She tested the car together with its manufacturer and none of the batteries ignited.
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Hyundai Kona cars convened in South Korea will have their software updated, and the manufacturer will replace the battery on some models.
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KB Investment & Securities estimates that the convening event could cost Hyundai up to 600 billion won (CZK 12 billion) if it replaces the battery of almost 77,000 affected cars worldwide.
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