Hyundai Ioniq Electric, Hyundai Kona Electric, model years 2019 to 2020. Filed by Hyundai Motor America and reported to NHTSA on 1 March 2021. 4,696 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Hyundai Motor America (Hyundai) is recalling certain 2019-2020 Kona Electric and 2020 Ioniq Electric vehicles. The lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery may short-circuit.
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.
Hyundai's own number for this recall: 200. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 21V127 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 21V127 cover?
- Hyundai Ioniq Electric, Hyundai Kona Electric, model years 2019-2020.
- What is wrong with them?
- Hyundai Motor America (Hyundai) is recalling certain 2019-2020 Kona Electric and 2020 Ioniq Electric vehicles. The lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery may short-circuit.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- An electrical short in the Li-ion battery increases the risk of a fire.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Owners are advised to park their vehicles outside and away from structures until the interim action is complete.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Hyundai calls this recall 200, 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 electrical short in the Li-ion battery increases the risk of a fire.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 21V127 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Hyundai Motor America |
| System at fault | Electrical System:Propulsion System:Traction Battery |
| Reported to NHTSA | 1 March 2021 |
| Model years | 2019-2020 |
| Vehicles named | HYUNDAI IONIQ ELECTRIC, HYUNDAI KONA ELECTRIC |
This is not an ordinary campaign.
- Owners are told to park it outside, away from buildings: the wording used when a vehicle can catch fire while switched off and unattended.
What the notice says today
The consequence
An electrical short in the Li-ion battery increases the risk of a fire.
The remedy
Owners are advised to park their vehicles outside and away from structures until the interim action is complete. Hyundai will notify owners, and as an interim action, owners have the option to follow provided instructions to perform a battery update through the vehicle's infotainment system or request a Hyundai dealer to provide the update. Once parts are available, dealers will inspect the Battery System Assembly (BSA), and replace it if necessary. Repairs will be performed free of charge. Owners were notified of the safety risk, and the interim action, with a letter mailed April 9, 2021. Final owner notification letters were mailed June 17, 2021. Owners may contact Hyundai customer service at 1-855-371-9460. Hyundai's number for this recall is 200.
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 1,836 notices in the record whose component field names electrical system. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 41 days.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
The recall record and its wording are published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and are US Government public domain. The dated archive, the comparison and any before-and-after above are CarsMultiverse. How fresh every engine behind this page is, is public on the status page. To check a specific vehicle, use NHTSA’s own VIN lookup.
Other Hyundai notices we hold
- 26V493: 2027 Genesis G80
- 26V452: 2025 Kona Electric and 2026 Kona
- 26V432: 2023-2024 Ioniq 5
- 26V400: 2025-2026 Tucson, Tucson Hybrid, Tucson Plug-In Hybrid Electric (PHEV)
- 26V316: 2025-2026 Santa Cruz, Tucson, Tucson Hybrid, and Tucson Plug-In Hybrid Electric (PHEV)
- 26V314: 2025 Ioniq 5 and 2026 Ioniq 9
- 26V308: 2024-2026 Elantra Hybrid
- 26V307: 2015-2016 Elantra and 2016 Elantra GT
All 236 Hyundai campaigns we hold · Every manufacturer in the record
The fingerprint of this notice
We take a SHA-256 of each of the three blocks of text the authority publishes and keep the first eight characters. As we last read campaign 21V127 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
9236da1c - Consequence
7fbbdf99 - Remedy
5eefb12f
We first read this notice on 21 August 2026. It has not moved since. If it ever does, these characters will not match, and the change will be dated here.
The wording we hold for 21V127 · how the whole register is watched
This notice names one vehicle among several registers that have written about it. Every notice this site holds for the Hyundai Ioniq Electric, in all seven, is kept on that vehicle's own page, with the newest in each.
Put this notice on your site
A small badge that links here and names the register's reference. It costs one line of HTML and needs no key.
The badge is free to use. It links to this page and nowhere else, and it never shows advertising.
Owners of these cars
No register publishes what happens after the letter. Owners do: tell us, in two taps.
Anonymous: no account, no cookie, nothing you type is stored beyond these choices. Figures appear once 3 owners have answered, and are published with the record under CC BY 4.0.