13 Sep 2021, 17:47 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The companies tried to make it sound like some trivial procedure, but it only reveals how LGES has to step up its game quickly.
31 Aug 2021, 15:37 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / According to the company, it will only make new Bolt EVs and EUVs when it is sure that LG Energy Solution can make defect-free batteries.
21 Aug 2021, 07:14 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / A torn anode tab and a folder separator would have caused the fires. The additional cost for the recall will be $1 billion.
20 Aug 2021, 15:21 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The VW ID.3 had just finished charging in Groningen, and the driver had already put her child in the car when she noticed smoke coming from underneath it.
19 Aug 2021, 06:55 UTC · By: Cristian Gnaticov / Joining the Extended Range variant, the 2021 Hyundai Kona Electric Standard Range is already on sale in Australia, priced from the equivalent of US$39,500.
6 Aug 2021, 10:31 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The company released its Q2 2021 results and included that its net income of $2.8 billion was affected by $800 million in Bolt EV warranty recall costs.
23 Jul 2021, 14:42 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The company announced that it has identified with LG “two rare manufacturing defects in the same battery cell” that cause the fires.
15 Jul 2021, 11:12 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The company said that in a recall update, also asking that the car is not charged overnight. There has been a second fire already.
9 Jul 2021, 16:12 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / GM refused to talk if the repair would be enough when it released it. The new blaze screams that it may not be the case.
27 Jun 2021, 06:49 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The vehicle was registered in Norway for the first time in November 2020, according to Avisa Oslo, and was probably made in Europe.
25 Jun 2021, 06:47 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The affected cars should be just the ones produced from November 2017 up to March 2020, when part of the production moved to Nošovice, Czechia.
16 Jun 2021, 11:46 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Hyundai Kona Electric does not have anything that is extraordinary apart from its paint job and the source of the electricity that powers it.
24 Feb 2021, 17:53 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Approximately 82,000 units of the Kona Electric need brand-new batteries, which is why Hyundai will spend almost half of its 2020 net profit on this recall
26 Jan 2021, 15:53 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Although they've been fixed with all-new batteries, previously-recalled Kona Electric models are under investigation once again over fire incidents
13 Oct 2020, 11:51 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Hyundai, LG, and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport of South Korea have yet to determine what makes the Kona Electric go up in flames
2 Mar 2020, 13:40 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / The Hyundai Kona Electric is getting a little better from March 2020, featuring 484 kilometers of range as opposed to 449 kilometers for the outgoing model
28 Oct 2019, 15:31 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / The 2020 MINI Cooper SE might look quirky and exciting, but it's too little and too late in this ever-changing world of EVs
31 Jul 2019, 14:56 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The owner says he’d purchased the fully electric vehicle in March, insists it wasn’t even plugged in at the time. Firefighter sources claim it was charging
23 Jun 2019, 16:41 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Even though it wasn't designed to be a thriller on the straights, the Kona Electric can sure accelerate for a subcompact electric crossover
14 May 2019, 19:42 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / For the 2020 model year, the Hyundai Kona Electric is getting better than ever before! Here's hope these updates will trickle down to the U.S. version as well