Zero Dsp, Zero Zero Ds, Zero Zero S, model year 2012. Filed by Zero Motorcycles Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 4 April 2018. 218 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Zero Motorcycles (Zero) is recalling all 2012 Zero S, Zero DS, and Zero DSP (Police) motorcycles. Cell pouches in the battery packs may wear from contact with the holders, allowing humidity to enter the pouch and cause an electrical short within the battery.
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at NHTSA, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
Zero's own number for this recall: SV-ZMC-018-383. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 18V215 is the number NHTSA gave the same campaign, and the number this page is filed under. They are one recall, written two ways.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 18V215 cover?
- Zero DSP, Zero Zero DS, Zero Zero S, model year 2012.
- What is wrong with them?
- Zero Motorcycles (Zero) is recalling all 2012 Zero S, Zero DS, and Zero DSP (Police) motorcycles. Cell pouches in the battery packs may wear from contact with the holders, allowing humidity to enter the pouch and cause an electrical short within the battery.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- An electrical short can increase the risk of a fire.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Zero Motorcycles will notify owners and offer them a choice of either the repurchase of their motorcycle or a financial trade-assist towards a newer model year Zero Motorcycles motorcycle. The recall began on April 30, 2018. Owners may contact Zero customer service at 1-888-841-8085.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Zero calls this recall SV-ZMC-018-383, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.
Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “An electrical short can increase the risk of a fire.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 18V215 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Zero Motorcycles Inc. |
| System at fault | Electrical System:12v/24v/48v Battery |
| Reported to NHTSA | 4 April 2018 |
| Model years | 2012-2012 |
| Vehicles named | ZERO DSP, ZERO ZERO DS, ZERO ZERO S |
This is not an ordinary campaign.
- Owners are told not to drive the vehicle at all. NHTSA applies this to a small minority of campaigns. 28 of the 1,399 we currently hold.
What the notice says today
The consequence
An electrical short can increase the risk of a fire.
The remedy
Zero Motorcycles will notify owners and offer them a choice of either the repurchase of their motorcycle or a financial trade-assist towards a newer model year Zero Motorcycles motorcycle. The recall began on April 30, 2018. Owners may contact Zero customer service at 1-888-841-8085. Zero's number for this recall is SV-ZMC-018-383. Note: Since owners are advised to no longer ride or charge the affected motorcycles, Zero Motorcycles dealers will arrange for the collection of the affected motorcycle at no charge to the owners.
What it said before
This campaign is in the register but not yet in the dated wording archive, so we cannot yet say whether its text has moved. It enters the archive on the next pass.
This is one of 1,836 notices in the record whose component field names electrical system. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 41 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 18V215, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/18v215/
The cross-border matches used on this site are deposited as a citable dataset: doi:10.5281/zenodo.22087136. The recall wording itself is published by the national authority named above and is theirs, not ours.
The recall record and its wording are published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and are US Government public domain. The dated archive, the comparison and any before-and-after above are CarsMultiverse. How fresh every engine behind this page is, is public on the status page. To check a specific vehicle, use NHTSA’s own VIN lookup.
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- 25V459: 2024 DSR/X, DS, DSR, and DSRP motorcycles
- 23E074: accessory chain kits, with part numbers 10-08127 and 10-08140
- 22V403: 2022 SR and SR/F motorcycles
- 21V940: 2022 SR, SR/F, and SR/S motorcycles
- 21V795: 2020 SR/F motorcycles
All 18 Zero campaigns we hold · Every manufacturer in the record
The fingerprint of this notice
We take a SHA-256 of each of the three blocks of text the authority publishes and keep the first eight characters. As we last read campaign 18V215 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
f698e6b7 - Consequence
0624b394 - Remedy
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We first read this notice on 21 August 2026. It has not moved since. If it ever does, these characters will not match, and the change will be dated here.
The wording we hold for 18V215 · how the whole register is watched
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