Toyota is recalling its first mainstream electric car

Toyota BZ4X has recalled its first widely available electric vehicle and one of its full-sized pickup trucks due to

issues where nuts or bolts could fall free and wheels or axles could separate. Toyota advised BZ4X electric SUV

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owners not to drive their vehicles because the wheels could come off. All 260 or so BZ4X SUVs that have so far

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been delivered to customers are included in the warning and recall that Toyota Motor Sales USA announced

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on Thursday. The SUVs were only recently made available for purchase in the United States. Toyota's notice advises

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BZ4X owners to stop operating their vehicles right away. After even a relatively modest number of kilometres

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on the road, the bolts holding the wheels in place may become loose, causing the wheels to come off.

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Toyota is still looking into the circumstances and reasons why this might occur. The company claimed

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that Toyota doesn't yet know how to resolve the problem. Toyota dealers will pick up customers' BZ4Xs and bring

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them to the dealership while also offering free loaner cars until a fix is found, according to Toyota. The two Japanese automakers

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