Audi E-Tron Gt, Audi Rs E-Tron Gt, model years 2022 to 2024. Filed by Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 30 September 2024. 6,499 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Audi) is recalling certain 2022-2024 E-TRON GT, and RS E-TRON GT vehicles. The high-voltage battery may experience a short circuit within the battery module.
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.
Audi's own number for this recall: 931A/931B. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 24V726 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 24V726 cover?
- Audi E-Tron GT, Audi RS E-Tron GT, model years 2022-2024.
- What is wrong with them?
- Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Audi) is recalling certain 2022-2024 E-TRON GT, and RS E-TRON GT vehicles. The high-voltage battery may experience a short circuit within the battery module.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A short circuit in a high-voltage battery module increases the risk of a fire.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will install advanced diagnostic software as the final remedy free of charge. For vehicles where on-line data is available (Audi recall number 931A), as an interim measure, the vehicles will be monitored through online data evaluation at no cost to owners.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Audi calls this recall 931A/931B, 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: “A short circuit in a high-voltage battery module increases the risk of a fire.”
affected
in the notice
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| Campaign | 24V726 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. |
| System at fault | Electrical System:Propulsion System:Traction Battery |
| Reported to NHTSA | 30 September 2024 |
| Model years | 2022-2024 |
| Vehicles named | AUDI E-TRON GT, AUDI RS E-TRON GT |
What the notice says today
The consequence
A short circuit in a high-voltage battery module increases the risk of a fire.
The remedy
Dealers will install advanced diagnostic software as the final remedy free of charge. For vehicles where on-line data is available (Audi recall number 931A), as an interim measure, the vehicles will be monitored through online data evaluation at no cost to owners. Where the online data shows a potentially critical battery module, the owner will be contacted and advised to only charge the vehicle up to 80% charging capacity until the affected module can be replaced at an authorized Audi dealer, free of charge. For vehicles where online-data is not available (Audi recall number 931B), as an interim measure, dealers will perform diagnostic procedures and, if necessary, replace battery module assemblies, free of charge. Owners of these vehicles will also be advised to only charge their vehicle up to 80% charging capacity, and the inspection may have to be repeated before the software becomes available. Owner notification letters were mailed to Audi recall number 931A on July 24, 2025, and 931B was mailed on July 28, 2025. Owners may contact Audi customer service at 1-800-253-2834. Audi's numbers for this recall are 931A and 931B. This recall expands and replaces previous recall numbers 24V-229, and 24V-228. Vehicles previously repaired under the prior recalls will need to have the new remedy completed.
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.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 24V726, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/24v726/
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.
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 Audi notices we hold
- 26V266: 2025 Q5, Q5 Sportback, SQ5, and SQ5 Sportback
- 26V240: 2019-2023 Audi E-Tron Quattro, 2020-2023 Audi E-Tron Sportback, 2024 Q8 E-Tron, Q8 Sportback E-Tron, SQ8 E-Tron, and SQ8 Sportback E-Tron
- 26V209: 2026 Q3
- 26V125: 2019 Audi Q8, Audi A7, and Audi A6
- 25V900: 2019-2026
- 25V899: 2025 SQ6 E-Tron, SQ6 Sportback E-Tron, Q6 Sportback E-Tron, A6, A5, A6 Sportback E-Tron, Q6 E-Tron, S5, and S6 Sportback E-Tron
- 25V294: 2022-2024 Q5 Quattro and Q5 Sportback Quattro
- 25V227: 2022-2023 RS E-TRON GT and E-TRON GT
All 59 Audi 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 24V726 on 17 September 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
e563f068 - Consequence
0ad7a7cf - Remedy
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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.
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