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Tokyo / Cologne The carmaker Toyota has for software problems in Germany more than 19,000 vehicles of model Prius + and Auris Hybrid recall in the workshops. A software error could lead to overloading of the hybrid electronic control unit, the company said on Wednesday.
At the workshop stay will be playing an enhanced software. Worldwide, about 625,000 vehicles are according to the company concerned, which in Japan 340,000 cars, 160,000 trucks in Europe and 120,000 in North America.
The recall applies to factory specifications for models from the production period May 2010 to November 2014. The owners of the vehicles would be registered in a timely manner. Uploading of new software would last in the shop about 30 minutes
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Toyota said there were no reports of accidents related to the software problem. In case of overload of the hybrid electronic control unit, the warning light on, and the vehicle turn into the emergency program with reduced driving power. A total of three cases the companies in Europe had so far been reported.
Toyota is the world market leader for hybrid cars that can be driven both by battery and an internal combustion engine. Because of possible defective airbags supplier Takata Toyota had like other carmakers have to call hundreds of thousands of cars in the garages in the past few months.
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This currently is struggling also the local rival Toyota Daihatsu: The carmaker is recalling about 290,000 vehicles like Daihatsu announced on Wednesday. When Takata airbags there is a risk that the air bags explode and metal parts are thrown by the car. From the German market, Daihatsu has now withdrawn.
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