After Toyota issued a 2016 recall to fix a key electronic component on its Priuses, one of California’s largest dealers said the cars were still coming in after overheating and leaving drivers ...
Electrical defects cause Priuses to stall; Toyota may be bracing for a legal fight as safety worries grow This defective power inverter came out of a 2012 Prius. The car lost power in January while ...
Jordan Felo had just finished hiking in the local mountains outside Portland, Ore., several weeks ago and was headed home in his 2010 Toyota Prius when it suddenly lost power and slowed to a crawl.
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing (Toyota) is recalling certain 2010-2014 Toyota Prius and 2012-2014 Toyota Prius V vehicles. Excessive voltage in the Intelligent Power Module (IPM) within the ...
A Toyota dealer in California is refusing to sell certain models of the popular Prius over a potential safety issue. The automaker began voluntarily recalling hundreds of thousands of Prius hybrids in ...
A SoCal franchisee claims a recall didn't solve a safety issue with the popular hybrid, but the automaker says it's just sour grapes. Following stints in TV news production and as a record company ...
As many as 20,000 Toyota Prius owners have had electric power system failures after the company recalled their vehicles in 2014 and attempted to remedy a safety defect by modifying software. The ...
The best part about BEV and hybrid cars is probably the bit where their electronics are taken out for a good teardown and comparison with previous generations and competing designs. Case in point: ...
Toyota may supply independent mechanics with parts and instructions for repairing, but not replacing, potentially faulty inverters on certain 2014 Prius models, Green Car Reports has learned.
Some 2010 Toyota Prius models may produce a slight coolant leak from underneath the vehicle. One possible cause, Toyota said, is an insufficiently tightened inverter coolant drain plug. To check ...