Arcimoto Fuv, model years 2017 to 2018. Filed by Arcimoto Inc and reported to NHTSA on 31 December 2018. 23 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Arcimoto, Inc (Arcimoto) is recalling certain 2017-2018 FUV motorcycles. Over time, increased resistance at the battery connection may result in the Battery Management System unexpectedly shutting down propulsion power.
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.
Arcimoto's own number for this recall: 7F7-A3Z5C-12. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 18V946 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 18V946 cover?
- Arcimoto Fuv, model years 2017-2018.
- What is wrong with them?
- Arcimoto, Inc (Arcimoto) is recalling certain 2017-2018 FUV motorcycles. Over time, increased resistance at the battery connection may result in the Battery Management System unexpectedly shutting down propulsion power.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A sudden loss of propulsion power may increase the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Arcimoto has notified all affected owners and the motorcycles are within the manufacturer's control. Arcimoto will replace the vehicles, free of charge. Owners may contact Arcimoto customer service at 1-541-683-6293. Arcimoto's number for this recall is 7F7-A3Z5C-12.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Arcimoto calls this recall 7F7-A3Z5C-12, 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: “A sudden loss of propulsion power may increase the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 18V946 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Arcimoto Inc |
| System at fault | Electrical System:Propulsion System:Traction Battery |
| Reported to NHTSA | 31 December 2018 |
| Model years | 2017-2018 |
| Vehicles named | ARCIMOTO FUV |
What the notice says today
The consequence
A sudden loss of propulsion power may increase the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Arcimoto has notified all affected owners and the motorcycles are within the manufacturer's control. Arcimoto will replace the vehicles, free of charge. Owners may contact Arcimoto customer service at 1-541-683-6293. Arcimoto's number for this recall is 7F7-A3Z5C-12.
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 18V946, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/18v946/
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.
Other Arcimoto notices we hold
- 23V693: 2023 FUV and MUV hybrid electric motorcycles
- 22V507: 2019-2022 FUV, 2020-2022 Roadster, Deliverator and 2021 Rapid Responder hybrid electric
- 22V223: 2019-2022 FUV, 2021-2022 Rapid Responder, 2020-2022 Deliverator, and Roadster motorcycles
- 22V175: 2020-2022 Deliverator, 2019-2022 FUV, 2021-2022 Rapid Responder, and 2020-2022 Roadster motorcycles
- 21V314: 2019-2021 FUV, 2020 Deliverator, 2021 Rapid Responder motorcycles
- 21V311: 2019-2021 FUV, 2021 Rapid Responder, 2020 Deliverator, 2020-2021 Roadster
- 21V307: 2019-2021 FUV, 2020 Deliverator, 2020-2021 Roadster, and 2021 Rapid Responder motorcycles
- 21V242: 2019-2021 FUV, 2020-2021 Deliverator and Roadster, and 2021 Rapid Responder motorcycles
All 31 Arcimoto 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 18V946 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
8cb34539 - Consequence
6fae7d3b - 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.
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