Toyota halting sales of EV because wheel can fall off?

[jboy210]

Apparently the new Toyota EV bZ4x sales have been halted because the wheels can fall off. Additionally owners are being told not to drive the vehicle until a remedy can be found. This article goes through the details.

Given their reputation for quality I find it shocking Toyota would have such an issue. It also looks like the sister Subaru banded vehicle also has the same issue.

 

[tm1v2]

This isn't good. The only real selling point I see in the bZ4X is the potential for typical Toyota-level reliability. Starting off with the wheels falling off is not promising in that regard.

What's interesting to me here is what Toyota hasn't said - why are the hub bolts coming loose? Sounds like it might not be simply a miscalibrated factory robot...might be a design flaw. Or materials flaw I suppose. I'm just speculating but that's because Toyota says they haven't figured it out yet!

 

[cwerdna]

I posted this elsewhere earlier today:
I found Toyota is conducting a safety recall involving 2023 model year bZ4X vehicles - Toyota USA Newsroom and even though 2023 TOYOTA BZ4X | NHTSA listed 0 recalls for some reason, it has it.

There are currently 3 associated documents with that recall (NHTSA Campaign Number: 22V444000):

https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2022/RCAK-22V444-2481.pdf

https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2022/RCLRPT-22V444-8502.PDF

https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2022/RMISC-22V444-4456.pdf

What's interesting to me here is what Toyota hasn't said - why are the hub bolts coming loose? Sounds like it might not be simply a miscalibrated factory robot...might be a design flaw. Or materials flaw I suppose. I'm just speculating but that's because Toyota says they haven't figured it out yet!

From the above, they don't seem to know yet, as of 6/23/22.

But yes, indeed. This has got to be super embarrassing for them.

 

[alangold]

I see you already posted this

 

[richh]

From the above, they don't seem to know yet, as of 6/23/22.

But yes, indeed. This has got to be super embarrassing for them.

Is it because the electric motors don't use regular axles? Otherwise it's a very basic component that's already been mastered for centuries.