Recall · 21V944000
Hyundai Motor America recalled the HYUNDAI Ioniq Electric over electrical system
2,679
Vehicles covered
1
Model
3
Model years
December 7, 2021
Filed with NHTSA
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:PROPULSION SYSTEM:CHARGING:MODULE:ONBOARD (OBCM)
- The defect
- Hyundai Motor America (Hyundai) is recalling certain 2017-2019 Ioniq electric vehicles. An unstable electrical ground may cause the vehicle to enter a fail-safe mode with reduced acceleration and power. In certain conditions while in fail-safe mode, the vehicle may accelerate after the gas pedal is released.
- What it can cause
- Unexpected acceleration following gas pedal release can increase the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will update the EPCU (Electric Power Control Unit) software and repair the ground wiring, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed February 9, 2022. Owners may contact Hyundai customer service at 1-855-371-9460. Hyundai's number for this recall is 215.
- NHTSA's note
- Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.nhtsa.gov.
The repair is free, whatever the age or mileage of the vehicle, and whether or not you are the original owner.
Which vehicles
A recall reaches a range of VINs inside these model years, not every car built in them. Yours may not be covered even if it is listed here, and the only way to find out is NHTSA's own VIN lookup .
| Vehicle | Model years | Safety record |
|---|---|---|
| HyundaiIoniq Electric | 2017 to 2019 | 2017 |
How this campaign compares
At 2,679 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 69% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2017 to 2019, so the oldest vehicles on it were 4 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Hyundai vehicles have been recalled over the electrical system 13 times before this, most recently in December 2021 as 21V938000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 2 of the 3 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 15 complaints with NHTSA, 10 of them before this campaign was filed. 11 of those name the electrical system, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in July 2018, 3 years before this filing.
Check your own car
A VIN check is the only answer for a specific vehicle, and it also shows every other open recall on it, which is usually the reason it is worth doing rather than reading one campaign.
Filed by Hyundai Motor America with NHTSA on December 7, 2021 as campaign 21V944000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
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