NHTSA needs to make sure automakers recalled all faulty LG batteries

WASHINGTON/SEOUL — The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Tuesday mentioned it’s opening a evaluate to make sure all faulty batteries produced by LG Power Answer have been recalled by automakers.

The auto security company famous Mercedes-Benz, Chrysler-parent Stellantis, Common Motors and Hyundai Motor Co. have issued remembers since 2020 attributable to inside failures in high-voltage automobile batteries that pose fireplace dangers.

NHTSA mentioned the tools question covers 138,324 autos and can talk with LG “and different corporations which may have bought the identical or related tools from LG, notify them of this defect in any autos they manufactured, and to make sure thorough security remembers are carried out the place acceptable.”

An LG Power Answer spokesperson in a press release mentioned the corporate understands the request by NHTSA is a follow-up process, including, “LG Power Answer will absolutely cooperate with the inquiry.”

Amongst remembers cited by the company had been GM’s recalls of its Chevrolet Bolt EV that prompted it to halt gross sales and manufacturing of recent fashions in August.