Skip to content

Electronic Vessel Control system (EVC) – Volvo Penta “Unknown”

Serious risk Injuries

Published by Safety Gate 4 Apr 2014In the weekly report of 11 Apr 2014 (week 14, 2014)Safety Gate noticeJSON
latest report: week 43, 30 Oct 2026checked 2 min agoSource: EU Safety Gate
Product
Electronic Vessel Control system (EVC)
Brand
Volvo Penta (10 alerts)
Brand as notified
VOLVO PENTA
Name
Unknown
Type / model
D6, D11 and D13 marine Engines with EVC-D, EVC-D2, EVC-E or EVC-E2 with IPS 1, IPS 2, IPS 3 with 24 V main electrical system with more than one helm-station, stand-alone HCU included.
Batch
Unknown
Description
Marine control system for propulsion and steering of thruster units.
Risk
null A quality issue in the Electronic Vessel Control system (EVC) software could, under certain rare circumstances, cause unexpected loss of steering. The product does not comply with the Recreational Craft Directive.
Measures
  • Recall of the product from end users · from 20 Feb 2014
Notifying country
Sweden
Country of origin
Sweden
Alert type
Consumer

This page reproduces the Safety Gate record as published. recallarchive is not affiliated with the European Commission. If you own this product, follow the measures above and contact the seller.

Other alerts for Volvo Penta

Sources

  1. Safety Gate alert A12/0522/14
    European Commission, Safety Gaterecord fields marked “official alert record”: © European Union, CC BY 4.0; values listed separately here
  2. Safety Gate weekly report Report-2014-014 (XML)
    the copy this page was built fromCC0 1.0