Hyundai recalls 1.6 million gas-powered cars due to potential car fires

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After making lots of headlines due to the extremely easy-to-steal nature of some of its cheapest models, Hyundai has a new headache. The Korean automaker is recalling 1.6 million cars in the US after 21 vehicles fires and 22 thermal incidents that have taken place since 2017.

The past couple of years have seen a lot of scaremongering from the anti-electric vehicle crowd. One such nonsensical claim is that EVs will be too heavy for multistory parking lots, but all too often, it’s know-nothings or people with an agenda claiming—in the face of actual data—that EVs are a fire risk. On planet Earth, though, the risk of a car fire in a gasoline-powered vehicle is far higher, representing the majority of the 300,000 car fires that occur in the US each year.

This is one such case. The problem is down to an ABS module, or more specifically, the O-rings on the ABS module motor shaft.