In total, batteries will be replaced in about 82 thousand Hyundai electric vehicles around the world. For the most part, this concerns the company’s bestseller – the Kona EV model, to which about 76 thousand units will be recalled. The review will also affect the Ioniq EV and Elec City models.

The company last October announced it voluntarily recalled a batch of Kona EVs due to multiple fires to reinstall the software. But in January of this, one of the electric vehicles caught fire, which had already been recalled. The South Korean authorities launched an investigation to find out how effective the fixing was.

Battery supplier LG Energy Solution, a division of LG Chem, indicated in a statement that the fires were not caused by a defect in the batteries but rather by the fast charging system used in Hyundai’s electric vehicles.

According to the South Korean Ministry of Transportation, about 15 incidents of Kona EV-11 fires occurred in South Korea, two in Canada, and one each in Finland and Austria.

Hyundai said that the total recall cost of 1 trillion won, about 38.9 billion won was due to the first recall of electric vehicles.