Volkswagen is still experiencing problems related to electric cars, but this time the hastily revised strategies and the wobbly financial statements have nothing to do with it. The Wolfsburg-based group is about to launch a recall campaign affecting no fewer than 94,000 electric vehicles in Europe, 28,000 of which are in Germany alone.
WHICH VOLKSWAGEN ELECTRIC CARS ARE INVOLVED
According to media reports, also through the recall database of the German Federal Motor Transport Authority, the recall campaign should involve the ID.3, ID.4, ID.5, ID.Buzz and ID.Buzz Cargo and 19,452 Cupra Born, all models produced between February 7, 2022, and August 23, 2024, at VW production plants in Zwickau and Hannover.
THE DEFECT TO BE FIXED
A defect was found in the accumulators: the individual modules inside the high-voltage batteries of the indicated Volkswagen electric cars may not comply with technical specifications, causing a reduction in range for users or the illumination of a warning light on the display (the German authority also mentions a fire risk which is naturally residual since no cases of accidents or injuries have been reported to date).
ANOTHER BLOW FOR VW
In short, electric cars bring yet another blow to Volkswagen, the European brand that more than any other – probably also to leave behind the shame of Dieselgate – rushed to embrace the new type of zero-emission powertrains, but strongly impacted by the market’s indifference, which currently favors hybrid technologies.
Volkswagen is in the midst of an emergency maneuver that will require cutting 50,000 jobs and most likely sacrificing some plants in Germany. To limit the damage, the Wolfsburg Group is looking with interest at the industrial production of weapons and armaments, encouraged by the German government and funded at the European level.
