The automobile manufacturer Toyota Motor called on Wednesday to review about 625,000 hybrid cars worldwide due to a failure of software which can reduce the driving power and make even with it stops .
The company, considered the world’s largest automobile manufacturer with headquarters in Aichi, central Japan, said that the fault did not cause any accidents or injuries to the occupants.
The defect affects the Prius + models (marketed as Prius Prius Alpha V or, in certain markets) and the hybrid Auris, manufactured between May 2010 and November 2014.
Of the total, 160,000 were sold in Europe, 120,000 in North America and approximately 340 thousand in Japan, while the remaining 5,000 were sold in Africa and other markets.
The current configuration software of these cars can cause a transistor overheating, which, if damaged, can carrying, firstly, the lighting of various warning lights according Toyota.
In most cases, the vehicle would be in “safe mode,” which reduces the car driving force and allows drive it only for a limited distance.
Ultimately, says Toyota, the hybrid system off would and the car would be stopped.
The company explained that the Car affected should be taken to dealers of purchase where a software update will be made, estimated operating in about half an hour.
The Toyota Caetano Portugal will draw to their workshops 868 hybrid cars. Official company source told Lusa that this software update “is normal and occurs in various industries and equipment”, and the target system is what “controls the flow of energy in the hybrid system, only for models Auris HSD and Prius +. “
At stake in Portugal are 821 units of the Toyota Auris HSD and 47 Toyota Prius + vehicles. The source of Toyota Caetano said that within the next few days, the company “will directly contact customers involved cars (by registered mail) so that, upon its availability, moving with the cars to the official network of Toyota dealerships.”
He adds that the update of software “will have no cost to the customer.”
The problem was detected at a time when Toyota, along with other Japanese manufacturers, is still very present massive calls to review due to faults in airbags Takata company, which have given rise to the least eight deaths.
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