If you own a 2025 Volvo EX30, the Swedish automaker wants you to park your subcompact crossover outside due to a fire risk. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recently announced a recall for the EV after it was determined that some examples of the EX30 have high-voltage batteries potentially susceptible to short-circuiting and overheating. Thus, owners are advised to “park outside and away from structures and limit their charge to a maximum of 70% until the recall repair is complete.” This comes just a few days after Volvo recalled over 400,000 cars for faulty rearview cameras, but at least this time around, the problem exists in only a handful of vehicles.
The Problem with the Volvo EX30
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The NHTSA’s recall report says that 40 vehicles are potentially involved in this recall, impacting 2025 models produced between September 6, 2024, and October 25, 2025. These vehicles were produced with high-voltage batteries from the Sunwoda Power Battery Company in China, and the cause of the issue has been attributed to “a process deviation that may result in the formation of lithium plating growth that could also lead to an internal cell short.” Volvo was first made aware of the problem in July 2025 in a vehicle outside the U.S., and this led to an investigation that was escalated to a Critical Concern Action Process. Toward the end of December last year, the team in charge of critical concerns issued a safety notification recall.
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The good news is that “Volvo Cars can confirm there are no warranty claims or field or service reports related to this defect in the U.S., but if the issue does rear its head in locally sold cars, owners can expect a battery overheating message to pop up in the driver’s display cluster.
Volvo’s Fix is Coming Next Month
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The bad news is that, while dealers have already been notified of the problem in preparation for a fix, owners will only be able to search their VINs from January 26, and remedy owner notification letters are only expected to go out on February 23. Unfortunately, it’s unclear how Volvo intends to solve this issue. Normally, the recall report will detail either a software update or a component replacement, but no such information is available yet. Presumably, Volvo is trying to determine whether it can get away with avoiding a battery replacement, which would surely be costly and time-consuming. Until then, these few EX30s should be parked far away from anything that could catch fire.
