Volkswagen is planning to send out an over-the-air update to 22,524 ID.4 customers that would limit the maximum charge of their vehicle to 80 percent, recall documents filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) show. According to the documents, the batteries in the associated vehicles could catch fire if certain charging conditions are met while the vehicle is at over 80 percent state of charge.
This isn’t the first recall related to battery fires that Volkswagen has issued for the ID.4 this year. That came back in January and covered nearly 44,000 models stretching from the 2023 to 2025 model years.
I don’t doubt it’s a safety considersation.
In a less tinfoiler note - why would they release a car that’s not been tested well enough to discover this fault condition?
Is it not already well known that these batteries contain enough energy to be a practically inextinguishable firebomb?
Why would any company, let alone one as big as VAG release a vehicle without going through every test to prove that their vehicles were safe?
German industry went from CAD to customer around 2010 and never looked back. It’s one reason why no one is buying any VAG products. The VAG has dried up. AUDIs now all have plastic oil pans.