Luxury sports car maker Porsche is recalling around 43,000 of its Taycan electric cars worldwide because of a fault that causes a sudden loss of performance, the company said Friday. To fix the problem, you will need to take your car to a repair center as an over-the-air software update does not appear to be possible in this case.
“A free workshop appointment should take place as soon as possible and the software update will take about an hour,” said Porsche in a press release blog entry.
The recall affects all Taycan vehicles produced and delivered up to June, the company announced in a press conference via. With Reuters. According to Porsche board member Klaus Rechberger, the problem has been observed in around 130 cars, but so far no associated accidents or injuries have been reported. Porsche announced on Friday that the bug has already been fixed for newer Taycan models.
The problem and potential recall was first addressed by. reported Bloomberg earlier this week. Reports of the sudden shutdown of Porsche vehicles in the US led to an investigation by the US Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in May, people familiar with the deal said.
In one submission The May 17 NHTSA said it had received nine complaints about the issue, describing it as “loss of propulsion power while driving at any speed without warning the driver”. Each complaint stated that the power turned off with no warning or error message about a battery failure, with six of the cars refusing to restart after a power outage.
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The Taycan, which debuted in 2019, is the first line of battery-powered cars from Porsche. They are especially popular in the US, where electric vehicles are already there oversold The iconic 911 and Panamera sports cars from Porsche, the company’s youngest quarterly sales.
Given the line’s success to date, that recall is unlikely to be a huge blow to Porsche’s bottom line. However, it underlines the particular challenges that companies face when switching from gas engines to technologically more complex electric motors. The Chinese authorities have ordered another electric car manufacturer, Tesla, to recall tens of thousands his vehicles on safety issues. Last week, Tesla released an over-the-air software update it called a “recall” to repair the autopilot function on nearly 300,000 vehicles after a Chinese regulatory agency investigation found the cars’ cruise control systems activated could cause an accident causing the vehicles to accelerate unexpectedly