What recall is this article talking about?

My 2008 Prius had one fail, buy I'm not sure that was the same problem.

 

Toyota Prius Stalling Problems Continue, Highlighted by a Dealer’s Lawsuit over Five-Year Problem

Reporting on courtroom testimony from Toyota executives, the Times said as many as 20,000 Prius owners have reported electric powertrain failures since the recall was issued in February 2014. At that time, Toyota recalled nearly 700,000 cars from 2010 to 2014 model years for inverter transistors that could fail and shut the whole car down while driving. Toyota expanded this recall in July 2015 to include another 109,000 Prius V models, then released another recall for all of these cars in October 2018. Each involved software updates that were supposed to place the cars in limp-home mode if they detected a power failure. But the lawsuit alleges this hasn't been working as Toyota intended, and according to the Times, Toyota is expanding the recall again to include 2018 Prius models.


The Times said Hogan and NHTSA officials met at least six times last summer. While complaints like Hogan's can compel NHTSA to launch investigations and audits into ongoing recalls to determine if a remedy is working, there is no such case open as of this time. The Prius C is not included in this recall.

 

his vehicle says 2011

i'm not sure why we are in a gen 4 forum

 

The dealer complaining has a beef with Toyota. Toyota has asserted that his son is not qualified to be the GM of a Toyota dealership.

Cum grano salis.

 

i cannot find where it says prius c is not included. never mind, i see it at the very end, but no link to a recall

 

how can there be a recall the media knows about, but no one can find?

most online articles are just quoting the times.

some say the 2018 models are prius c.

 

'toyota exec admits to 18-20,000 power inverters failed' is explained in the testimony as people bringing their cars in for the recall. and the exec rejects hogans lawsuit.

the exec is tom trisdale, usa vp of quality

 

i could be wrong, but if gen4's were involved, i'd think someone would have mentioned it by now.

 

The first clue should be that the title of the article mentions "Five-Year Problem." Although Toyota did do a recall about the car having little power output when the battery was full and getting off the line.

 

There is a PRIUS c recall here - announced over a week ago - this is TOYOTA AUSTRALIA NEWSROOM - not the press:

 

too bad no one here at priuschat has any inside connections to provide the correct info...

 

I get suspicious when there is a lawsuit in relation to what seems to have started as a personal matter (son not being Manager) and then it moves to what looks like a vendetta.

Reading PriusChat for 3½ years, firstly lurking on both Gen 3 and Gen 4 - and what I've read doesn't tally with what the LA Times reported was in the courtcase.

 

agreed

 

No, the inverter with converter assembly for the fourth-generation Prius was newly developed; see Kitazawa, O., Kikuchi, T., Nakashima, M., Tomita, Y. et al., “Development of Power Control Unit for Compact-Class Vehicle,” SAE Int. J. Alt. Power. 5(2):2016, doi:10.4271/2016-01-1227. Its major specifications, given in the New Car Features books (more info), are also different from those of the inverter for the Prius c; for example, the rated voltage (inverter side) for the boost converter is 600 V for the former but 520 V for the latter.