Transport Canada says Hyundai Auto Canada Corp. has pleaded responsible to 6 completely different counts of felony expenses for violating the nation’s Motor Car Security Act.

Hyundai Auto Canada did not ship out notices of security defect throughout the prescribed time interval of 60 days, the assertion mentioned, and the corporate can pay a fantastic of $360,000.

“It’s alarming that Hyundai did not notify car homeowners of a recall in a well timed method on six completely different events,” mentioned Transport Minister Omar Alghabra.

The defects that affected practically 300,000 automobiles had been part of the remembers issued by Hyundai in 2020 and 2021. A few of these remembers had been security dangers associated to attainable car fires, lowered braking efficiency and sudden lack of engine energy.

“Nothing is extra vital to Hyundai Canada than the security of its prospects and their households,” Hyundai Canada mentioned in an announcement. “Hyundai Canada acknowledged that throughout the COVID pandemic, it was not assembly the exact timing necessities recognized within the relevant rules in a restricted variety of cases. Nevertheless, we instantly corrected the problem and accepted accountability.  All prospects had been notified of the remembers and no security incidents occurred arising from this matter.”