A software malfunction has forced Fiat to call back 5,600 all-electric 500 city cars. The models were built from March 2012 to November 1st 2014.
The automaker explains that “if the vehicle goes in to limp home mode, incompatible software between Electric Vehicle Control Unit and Battery Pack Control Module may cause the electric propulsion system to fully shut down.”
Apparently, the EV worked fine the way it was first delivered, but a later software update (installed in March 2014) caused an incompatibility issue.
The vehicles which are being recalled obviously won’t need any major interventions, just to be plugged into a laptop to receive the new software.
However, a recall for a software update would have been made irrelevant, if Fiat had fitted the 500 EV with wireless data transfer capabilities, just like any Tesla Model S has.
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