[FranKaj]

3 reported thermal venting events in Europe between April 2024 and August 2024 but no reported fires.

Has anyone experienced the failure they are describing? What are the odds of the failure occurring?

Not another safety recall on my 2022 Escape PHEV, anyone else received this new recall? It states that it affects 2020-2024 Escape PHEV vehicles. States: A manufacturing defect in one or more of vehiles high voltage battery cells may cause the cell to develop an internal short circuit. Parts and software are not available just yet. In the event of a high voltage battery cell internal short circuit, one will experience a Stop Safely Now message and warning icon in the instrument cluster. One may also experience a battery thermal venting potentially resulting in a vehicle fire !!!

Has anyone actually experienced the failure described? Or do they have an estimate of odds of failure occurring? If Murphy has anything to do with it the failure will only occur when you a thousand miles or more from homeland I'm planning a long road trip this spring.

 

[FranKaj]

Thank you for the information. Looks like estimated failure rate is 1% of PHEV population. Which is still of concern. This is one lottery I don't want to "win."

 

[FranKaj]

Got mine yesterday too. Going on a 5-thousand-mile trip tomorrow to SF and back I've got 99k miles on OD.

Paul

Good luck.