Ford’s Mustang Mach-E recall to prevent power failures is under investigation

The Nationwide Freeway Visitors and Security Administration (NHTSA) is opening a question on Ford’s response to a recall final 12 months that affected virtually 49,000 Mustang Mach-E automobiles, as reported by Automotive News. The June 2022 recall was issued as a consequence of a malfunction involving overheating of the electrical SUV’s high-voltage contactors, which, at worst, could make the EV abruptly lose energy on the street, rising the chance of a crash.

Occurances would typically observe high-speed battery charging or repeated quick acceleration periods.

Ford issued an over-the-air (OTA) software program replace to answer the recall, which was designed to scale back energy if the contactors obtained too scorching — in hopes of stopping sudden energy loss and attainable harm to the contacts. The automaker additionally held new Mach-E deliveries at dealerships till they obtained the software program replace. The automaker had moreover opened a service bulletin to exchange the Excessive Voltage Battery Junction Field in affected automobiles.

Now, NHTSA’s Workplace of Defects Investigation stories receiving 12 client complaints relating to Ford’s resolution.

The Workplace of Defects Investigation (ODI) has opened this Recall Question (RQ) after receiving 12 client complaints alleging a excessive voltage battery predominant contactor failure in MY 2021-2022 Ford Mach-E automobiles (topic automobiles) that had been included in Recall 22V-412 and remedied previous to the reported incidents. The treatment on this recall was a Secondary On-Board Diagnostic Management Module (SOBDMC) software program replace to watch contactor temperature and scale back battery energy to stop harm to the contactor, and a Battery Vitality Management Module (BECM) software program replace to watch contactor resistance to establish an overheated contactor and scale back automobile energy to stop additional harm.

One buyer criticism dated August nineteenth says they needed to get the Excessive Voltage Battery Junction Field changed twice for a similar electrical system problem. One other criticism in February talked about the failure reoccurred after getting the software program replace.

The unique recall affected 48,924 2021 and 2022 Mustang Mach-E automobiles constructed between Could twenty seventh, 2020, and Could twenty fourth, 2022, at Ford’s Cuautitlan plant in Mexico. For the brand new question, NHTSA says an estimated 64,727 automobiles are a part of its investigation.