
General Motors announced two more recalls late Friday, bringing to 4.8 million the number of cars, trucks and SUVs the automaker has called back for repairs in the past month.

General Motors announced two more recalls late Friday, bringing to 4.8 million the number of cars, trucks and SUVs the automaker has called back for repairs in the past month.

GM is recalling 656 model year 2014 Cadillac ELR vehicles not equipped with adaptive cruise control and manufactured 26 September 2013 through 14 February 2014, and equipped without Adaptive Cruise Control. (NHTSA Campaign Number: 14V-144; GM’s number for this recall is 14087.)

Nissan is recalling approximately 989,701 model year 2013-2014 Altima, LEAF, Pathfinder, and Sentra, model year 2013 NV200 (aka Taxi) and Infiniti JX35 and model year 2014 Infiniti Q50 and QX60 vehicles. There are 29,165 LEAFs involved in the recall.

The U.S. government’s auto safety watchdog, NHTSA, has closed an investigation into Tesla electric car battery fires after the company said it would install more shields beneath the cars.

Toyota announced that it will conduct a voluntary safety recall of approximately 119,000 MY 2003-2004 Avalon sedans.