e Manufacturing Center in Marysville, Ohio. Its Fuel Cell Unit Assembly that powers the vehicle is produced at Fuel Cell System Manufacturing, LLC in Brownstown, Michigan, a joint-venture with General Motors. According to documents filed with the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the leak can result from insufficient adhesive sealant following a process change, or burrs in the wobble joint O-ring groove due to a missing...

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only noting that 18 trucks built during that period made it to dealers and customers. Ford has recalled 18 of its 2023 F-150 Lightning vehicles as a result of a February battery fire that shut down production for five weeks at its Rouge Electric Vehicle Center, until it restarted on March 13. U.S. NHTSA described the cause as “Due to production process deviations at the supplier, the cathode aluminum tabs may contact the anode electrode materi...

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566 hp, 546 lb-ft torque, and 0–60 mph in 4.0 seconds. The tech-rich cabin offers Qualcomm 8155-based displays, wireless connectivity, and AI-enhanced OTA services. A fire occurred to a Fisker "Karma" parked in Woodside, California on August 10, the second such incident to the "Karma" this year. NHTSA is investigating why the fire broke out. Fisker has so far delivered more than 1,000 "Karma" cars. Fisker Automotive said it will postpone the p...

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r U.S. plants for powertrain production Toyota sells Camry again in Brazil, but only in hybrid form Toyota announced on June 28 that its U.S.-built Camry, the best-selling car in America for 14 consecutive years, received an award from Cars.com for being the most “American-made”. According to NHTSA, the U.S.-sold domestic content for the Camry is 75 percent. . TMMK is Toyota’s largest vehicle manufacturing plant in the world with an annua...

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sed its sales in the U.S. 1.2 percent in 2011 over the previous year to 266,989, recording the highest for three years in a row. In addition to the brisk sales of the "Outlook" and an introduction of the all new "Impreza" in November, FHI is aiming to boost sales 12.4 percent up to 300,000 in 2012. NHTSA said Fuji Heavy Industries will recall 275,000 "Forester" SUVs from the 2009 to 2012 model years. An automatic locking retractor of the center s...

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o. unveiled the new Sonata equipped with the original Theta GDi engine at the L.A. Auto Show. Series production will begin in December at the Alabama plant. The automaker plans to add the turbo engine version and a hybrid model at the end of 2010. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has added 2011 and 2013 models years to an investigation of an airbag problem with Hyundai Elantras. The agency started investigating 123,000 2...

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t can trick the front corner radar sensors into falsely detecting a vehicle merging and triggering the brakes. While only affecting about 483 Genesis G90s from model years 2023 through 2026, the recall is noteworthy from the technical aspect. The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said that the subject vehicles are equipped with Highway Drive Assist (HDA), an advanced driving assistance system that allows semi-autonomous ...

News  Updated at: 2025/12/13

ouncement were not expressive, but nodded softly as Trump proposed the idea. Trump did not say if EV or ICE propulsion would be preferred or acceptable in the small vehicles. The following day on December 4, Secretary Duffy that he is working with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to “clear the deck” for domestic manufacturing of the mini-cars. “Are they going to work on the freeways? Probably not,” Duffy said, no...

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Trump administration proposes to reset CAFE standards On December 3, the U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy alongside U.S. President Donald Trump announced the administration’s new “Freedom Means Affordable Cars” proposal to reset the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)’s corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards.The new proposal would apply to passenger cars and light trucks for model years...

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and his wife who died at the scene, even after the bystanders “attempted to use a baseball bat to break the car windows”. The lawsuit is one of many filed in 2025 that similarly point to doors not being able to be opened in an emergency. The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) disclosed in September that it is investigating whether some Tesla doors are defective, citing incidents in which exterior handles stopped work...

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vehicles, including 2020-2023 Hyundai Sonatas vehicles equipped with 1.6-liter turbocharged engines that were produced by Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama manufactured between October 22, 2019 and October 7, 2023. On those vehicles, the U.S. National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) says that the purge control system check valve which controls the direction of airflow from the charcoal canister to the engine may deteriorate...

News  Updated at: 2025/11/22

e an instrument panel can fail and may not display at startup, leaving the driver without critical safety information. The recall includes 128,607 Ford Bronco Sports, model years 2025-2026 and 101,002 Ford Broncos, also model years 2025-2026, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said. NHTSA says that a blank IPC screen upon startup may render safety-related telltales and gauges unreadable in certain conditions. If drive...

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ns may have excluded data for Corolla Axio, Corolla Altis, and so on, opposing the Ford's claim of Focus as the world's best sold car. On April 17 Toyota celebrated the Mississippi’s first Corolla for export to customers in Central and South America and the Caribbean rolled off the assembly line. NHTSA said in documents posted on September 29 that it received complaints for Toyota Corolla, which has defects in brake and engine during low-speed ...

OEM Plants  Updated at: 2025/11/20

are error that may cause a potential loss of drive power. "Due to a software error, the integrated control module (ICM) central processing unit (CPU) may reset while driving, causing a loss of drive power," Honda said in an acknowledgement to the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The NHTSA report said that during the development of the ICM’s CPU abnormality monitoring software, the supplier did not fully understand th...

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nnounced that it produced 2,110 vehicles at its plant in Casa Grande, Arizona and delivered 2,394 of those vehicles during the second quarter. Lucid will issue an earnings release for Q2 2024 financial results on August 5.  On July 8, the U.S. National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced two recalls for Lucid Air sedans, built in Casa Grande, Arizona. NHTSA issued a recall for 5,251 2022-2023 Lucid Air sedans due to th...

OEM Plants  Updated at: 2025/11/14

ogue from local suppliers. The delivery price of the parts is lower than that at the Smyrna plant in the U.S. With the start of exporting Nissan Rogue vehicles, 87 Korean parts suppliers' sales are expected to increase by KRW 3.1 trillion in the next five years. Nissan reported two new campaigns to NHTSA on January 26. Globally two recalls will affect nearly 768,000 vehicles. 468,815 units of 2008-13 Nissan Rogue vehicles will be recalled in the ...

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ng) system, will be replaced. Subject to the recall are the 2008 "Town and Country," "Voyager" and "Grand Caravan." Sold in the U.S. were 299,718 vehicles, 50,251 in Canada and 3,748 in Mexico. Additional 13,633 exported vehicles will be recalled. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said it will inspect 622,817 Dodge Caravan and ChryslerTown and Country minivans from the 2005 model year because the headlights can fail witho...

OEM Plants  Updated at: 2025/11/10

Honda recalls over 406,290 Civics in U.S. over wheel detachment problem On November 6, Honda announced it is recalling 406,290 units of 2016 to 2021 model year vehicles over 18-inch aluminum alloy wheels sold as accessories, citing a possible manufacturing error. Honda sold more than 1.9 million Civics in the U.S in those five model years. The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said that the wheel could detach from the ve...

News  Updated at: 2025/11/08

ons, including a heated steering wheel, as well as vehicle stability control system as standard on all versions. Equipped with a 1.6-liter gasoline engine, it is priced at 15.15 million won for the "Style," and 19.95 million won for the "Premium." The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has added 2011 and 2013 models years to an investigation of an airbag problem with Hyundai Elantras. The agency started investigating 123,000 2...

OEM Plants  Updated at: 2025/11/07