2010 TOYOTA PRIUS — Complaint #1318832
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NHTSA Complaint about HYBRID PROPULSION SYSTEM: INVERTER filed September 19, 2016
NHTSA complaint #1318832 (ODI reference 10907999) concerns a 2010 TOYOTA PRIUS and was filed on September 19, 2016. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 11, 2016. The vehicle had 65,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to California based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as hybrid propulsion system: inverter, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same TOYOTA PRIUS cohort independently describe similar hybrid propulsion system: inverter failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2010 TOYOTA PRIUS shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2010 TOYOTA PRIUS. WHILE DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 50 MPH, THE VEHICLE LOST POWER WITHOUT WARNING. THE VEHICLE WAS TOWED TO THE DEALER WHERE IT WAS DIAGNOSED THAT THE ELECTRICAL SYSTEM FRIED THE INVERTER AND SHUT DOWN THE ENTIRE SYSTEM. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE SOFTWARE WAS AN ONGOING ISSUE AND OVERHEATED THE INVERTER, WHICH CAUSED THE ENGINE TO SHUT OFF AND THE VEHICLE TO COMPLETELY STOP. THE VEHICLE WAS REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOTIFIED. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 65,000. UPDATED 01/04/17*LJ THE CONSUMER REQUESTED A RESPONSE AND/OR STATUS REPORT. UPDATED 7/7/17*JS *TR
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1318832 |
| ODI Number | 10907999 |
| Date Filed | September 19, 2016 |
| Failure Date | February 11, 2016 |
| VIN | JTDKN3DU6A1 |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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