Toyota Motor Restarting Sales of First EV After Recall
- Recall of carmaker’s first mass-made battery EV was in June
- Production and sales forecasts will be revised, CTO says
A Toyota bZ4X electric SUV.
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Toyota Motor Corp. will restart sales of the bZ4X, its first mass-production battery electric vehicle, after fixing an issue with detaching wheels that led to a recall of 2,700 units worldwide.
The automaker submitted a report Thursday on the cause of the defect and remedial steps to fix it to Japan’s transport ministry. Newly designed hub bolts will be used to attach the wheels, replacing ones that were prone to loosening.