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Toyota Prius, Toyota Prius V, model years 2013 to 2017. Filed by Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing and reported to NHTSA on 24 June 2020. 266,638 vehicles potentially affected.

What the notice says Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing (Toyota) is recalling certain 2013-2015 Prius and 2014-2017 Prius V vehicles not included in recall 18V-684. Excessive voltage in the Intelligent Power Module (IPM) within the inverter may cause the hybrid system to shut down, causing the vehicle to stall while being driven.

Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at NHTSA, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.

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Toyota's own number for this recall: 20TB10 / 20TA10. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 20V369 is the number NHTSA gave the same campaign, and the number this page is filed under. They are one recall, written two ways.

What owners ask about this recall

Which vehicles does recall 20V369 cover?
Toyota Prius, Toyota Prius V, model years 2013-2017.
What is wrong with them?
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing (Toyota) is recalling certain 2013-2015 Prius and 2014-2017 Prius V vehicles not included in recall 18V-684.
What can happen if it is not put right?
An unexpected hybrid power system shut down may increase the risk of a crash.
Is there a fix yet?
Yes, and it is free. Toyota will notify owners, and dealers will perform a software update for the hybrid system. If the vehicle has experienced an inverter failure with certain hybrid system faults related to this condition, the inverter assembly will be repaired or replaced, prior to software update.
What should I do now?
Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Toyota calls this recall 20TB10 / 20TA10, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.

Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.

What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “An unexpected hybrid power system shut down may increase the risk of a crash.”

266,638vehicles potentially
affected
2models named
in the notice
0rewrites we have
caught
reported 24 June 2020owners told 24 July 2020today
The defect reached the regulator on 24 June 2020. Owners were written to 30 days later, on 24 July 2020. The median across the 14,869 American recalls that carry both dates is 41 days, and nine in ten owners are written to within 107. This campaign was quicker than most.
Campaign20V369
Filed byToyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing
System at faultHybrid Propulsion System:Inverter
Reported to NHTSA24 June 2020
Model years2013-2017
Vehicles namedTOYOTA PRIUS, TOYOTA PRIUS V

What the notice says today

The consequence

An unexpected hybrid power system shut down may increase the risk of a crash.

The remedy

Toyota will notify owners, and dealers will perform a software update for the hybrid system. If the vehicle has experienced an inverter failure with certain hybrid system faults related to this condition, the inverter assembly will be repaired or replaced, prior to software update. All repairs will be performed free of charge. This recall began July 24, 2020. Owners may contact Toyota customer service at 1-888-270-9371. Toyota's number for this recall is 20TB10 / 20TA10.

What it said before

This campaign is in the register but not yet in the dated wording archive, so we cannot yet say whether its text has moved. It enters the archive on the next pass.

This is one of 46 notices in the record whose component field names hybrid propulsion system. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 57 days.

Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.

The models named here, across their whole recall history

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CarsMultiverse, recall 20V369, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/20v369/

The cross-border matches used on this site are deposited as a citable dataset: doi:10.5281/zenodo.22087136. The recall wording itself is published by the national authority named above and is theirs, not ours.

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