Hyundai will recall 37,366 Kona BEVs in Europe and 11,137 Kona BEVs in North America according to Yonhap
The recalls would come after the South Korean automaker announced last week a voluntary recall plan for 25,564 Kona BEVs at home starting 16 October reuters.com/article/hyunda…
Hyundai Motor Co is set to triple the number of recalled Kona electric cars over battery cell fire risks with plans to recall around 51,000 vehicles in North America, Europe, China and other markets, Yonhap news agency reported on Sunday
Hyundai said in a statement on Monday it “is in the final stages of filing a voluntary recall notice with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration NHTSA for U.S. Kona EVs and will start the process of informing owners of these vehicles”
The Hyundai statement did not mention the other markets, the total number of additional electric vehicles EVs it intends to recall or the dates of the recalls
South Korea’s transport ministry said last week Hyundai will voluntarily recall its Kona EVs as a possible short circuit due to what may be faulty manufacturing of its high-voltage battery cells could pose a fire risk
LG Chem supplies batteries for Kona EVs and said last week faulty battery cells were not the cause of fires in Kona EVs, and that the exact cause had not been determined
It said a re-enactment experiment conducted jointly with Hyundai had not led to a fire, so the fires could not be attributed to faulty battery cells
LG Chem declined on Monday to comment beyond what it said last week
Recalled Kona EVs in South Korea will undergo software updates for all affected models and battery replacements of select models after inspections
KB Investment& Securities said in a report on Monday it could cost Hyundai as much as 600 billion won $522.10 million if they offer battery replacements for the nearly 77,000 affected vehicles identified worldwide so far
Shares of Hyundai Motor and LG Chem fell 0.8% and 2.0%, respectively, on Monday while the broader KOSPI market was up 0.3% as of 0430 GMT
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“Software and autonomous driving - only those who master these disciplines have a future in the automotive industry !” linkedin.com/posts/herbertd…
“This is why they were the main topics of our 1st digital top management conference, which was attended by over 400 Volkswagen AG executives from all over the world”
“In April 2020 we held a strategy workshop where we asked ourselves :
"What must we achieve in the next six months to catch up with Tesla in digital competence by 2024 at the latest?”
Nissan President and CEO Makoto Uchida says the automaker will "take advantage of the scale of the alliance" with Renault and Mitsubishi Motors in electrification technology, which he sees as a source of future revenue
He also says electrification may drive a restructuring in the auto industry and didn't deny the possibility of expanding the alliance
Porsche, Ferrari Cars Face $59,000 Gas-Guzzlers Tax in France
A draft budget law weaving its way through France’s parliament may force car shoppers to reconsider purchases of Porsche, Ferrari or Lamborghini models that guzzle gasoline bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
The government in Europe’s second-largest auto market is planning to more than double the “malus” -- or penalty -- consumers must pay based on cars’ carbon-dioxide emissions to as much as 50,000 euros ($59,000) in 2022
The proposal would increase what already are the continent’s costliest taxes on polluting passenger vehicles
1. Ball milling a mixture of transition metal oxides can produce homogeneous Ni,Mn,Co-oxide precursors, even to the extent of atomic mixing, so that previously unobserved (Ni, Mn, Co)O solid solution rock salt phase precursors can be formed
2. The final crystallite size of SC-NMC is only related to the heating conditions and has no relation to the precursor particle size, as previously believed
Nissan Motor will equip all future vehicles with basic automated driving functions, aiming to release more than 20 such models by fiscal 2023
The technology will enable Nissan's more expensive models to be operated hands-free on the highway asia.nikkei.com/Business/Autom…
Low to midprice cars will be able to track vehicles in front of them
To make this happen Nissan will have to navigate complex safety issues as advanced automated driving systems will put the car itself in charge of most of the vehicle's operation
The Japanese automaker plans to use its cars' operational data to develop more advanced functions
It will therefore place priority on encouraging wide takeup of the technology
“LiNi0.6Mn0.2Co0.2O2 (SC-NMC) is used as a specific example”
“It was found that a SC-NMC precursor in the form of a previously unobserved rock-salt (Ni, Mn, Co)O solid solution phase can be made phase pure by ball milling”
“This demonstrates that precursors with atomic scale mixing can be achieved by dry methods”
“It is furthermore shown that large precursor particle sizes are not necessary to form large SC-NMC particles as is commonly believed”