Toyota Recall 2020: Find Out If Your Hybrid Was Recalled For A Crash Risk?

Toyota (TM) has recalled about 267,000 Prius hybrid cars in the U.S. because they could lose power and stall.

The affected vehicles include certain 2013 to 2015 Prius and 2014 to 2017 Prius v cars.

According to the automaker, the Prius cars were designed with a failsafe driving mode that was engineered to respond during certain hybrid system faults. In rare instances, the cars may not enter this failsafe driving mode as intended.

If the hybrid cars are unable to enter the failsafe driving mode, the power steering and braking will continue to operate, but a vehicle stall could occur at higher driving speeds, increasing the risk of a crash.

To repair the failsafe driving mode, Toyota dealers will update the hybrid system software at no change to affected Prius owners. In addition, Toyota said if the cars have experienced an inverter failure without certain hybrid system faults because of the issue, the inverter will be repaired or replaced, again at no charge to vehicle owners.

Toyota said it expects to notify Prius owners about the recall in late August.

Questions about the recall can be directed to the Toyota Customer Experience Center at 1-800-331-4331 or the Lexus Great Experience Center at 1-800-255-3987.

Toyota stock was trading at $126.43 per share at 11:04 a.m. EDT, down $1.33 from 1.04%.