Hyundai Ioniq 5, model years 2023 to 2024. Filed by Hyundai Motor America and reported to NHTSA on 2 July 2026. 6 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Hyundai Motor America (Hyundai) is recalling certain 2023-2024 Ioniq 5 vehicles. The high voltage battery cells may contain misaligned electrodes, which can lead to a fire while parked or driving.
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: 305. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V432 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 26V432 cover?
- Hyundai Ioniq 5, model years 2023-2024.
- What is wrong with them?
- Hyundai Motor America (Hyundai) is recalling certain 2023-2024 Ioniq 5 vehicles. The high voltage battery cells may contain misaligned electrodes, which can lead to a fire while parked or driving.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A fire increases the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Owners are advised to park outside and away from structures and limit their charge to a maximum of 80% until the recall repair is complete. Dealers will replace the high voltage battery system assembly, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed August 31, 2026.
- 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 305, 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.
Owners are told to park away from buildings: the wording the agency uses when a vehicle can catch fire with the ignition off.
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V432 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Hyundai Motor America |
| System at fault | Electrical System:Propulsion System:Traction Battery |
| Reported to NHTSA | 2 July 2026 |
| Model years | 2023-2024 |
| Vehicles named | HYUNDAI IONIQ 5 |
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 defect
Hyundai Motor America (Hyundai) is recalling certain 2023-2024 Ioniq 5 vehicles. The high voltage battery cells may contain misaligned electrodes, which can lead to a fire while parked or driving.
The consequence
A fire increases the risk of injury.
The remedy
Owners are advised to park outside and away from structures and limit their charge to a maximum of 80% until the recall repair is complete. Dealers will replace the high voltage battery system assembly, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed August 31, 2026. Owners may contact Hyundai's customer service at 855-371-9460. Hyundai's number for this recall is 305. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on July 3, 2026.
What it said before
Nothing has changed while we have been watching. We last read the wording of this campaign on 15 September 2026, and it matched the copy we already held.
That copy hashes to a2859a320ef32779043d2fb07febec2f…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 1,832 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 26V432, wording as read on 15 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v432/
The copy quoted above hashes to a2859a320ef32779043d2fb07febec2f…. If the notice is reworded later, that fingerprint will not match, which is how a reader checks that the quotation was of the version we say it was.
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 Hyundai notices we hold
- 26V493: 2027 Genesis G80
- 26V452: 2025 Kona Electric and 2026 Kona
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- 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
- 26V254: 2025 Elantra N, 2026 Tucson, Tucson Hybrid, Tucson Plug-In Hybrid Electric (PHEV), and Elantra
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 26V432 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
849eea03 - Consequence
1bb9ab07 - 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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