Toyota calls for revision to 2.4 million hybrid vehicles in the world

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Toyota calls for revision to 2.4 million hybrid vehicles in the world



The affected cars are the Prius and Auris models manufactured between October 2008 and November 2014



  The Japanese automaker Toyota has announced that it will call for revision 2.43 million hybrid vehicles in the world, a month after having taken the same measure with more than one million vehicles of this technology.

Toyota said in a statement a problem of operation of the hybrid system, which combines a traditional gasoline engine with another electric motor, which could cause accidents. However, the company noted that there were few anomalies of this type, only three in Japan, and said that there was no accident in the archipelago. The company did not give data from other countries.

In case of failure of the hybrid system, the driver usually receives a warning of the indicator lights. This allows you to reduce speed and park. But "in very rare cases, the hybrid system could stop working instead of getting into safe mode," explains Toyota. "The vehicle would lose power until it stops" and in the case of high speed, this could "increase the risk of an accident".

The cars called for revision are the Prius and Auris models, manufactured between October 2008 and November 2014. The announcement affects 1.25 million customers in Japan, 830,000 in North America, 290,000 in Europe, 3,000 in China and 60,000 in others. regions. These cars were already involved in the revision plans announced in 2014 and 2015.

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