Cummins Vehicle Control Unit, model year 9999. Filed by Cummins Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 13 June 2019. 40 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Cummins Inc. (Cummins) is recalling certain Vehicle Control Units (VCU) for PowerDrive 7000 EV, part number 300114 Revision A, sold for use in school buses. The VCU may unexpectedly shut down the high voltage contactors, resulting in loss of all systems powered by high voltage, including the traction drive system and …
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.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 19E040 cover?
- Cummins Vehicle Control Unit.
- What is wrong with them?
- Cummins Inc. (Cummins) is recalling certain Vehicle Control Units (VCU) for PowerDrive 7000 EV, part number 300114 Revision A, sold for use in school buses.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- An unexpected loss of drive and power steering may increase the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Cummins has notified the only vehicle manufacturer affected, and Cummins will work with the vehicle owners to update the VCU software with a revised version, free of charge. The recall began June 19, 2019. Owners may contact Cummins customer service at 1-800-286-6467.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on.
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 unexpected loss of drive and power steering may increase the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 19E040 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Cummins Inc. |
| System at fault | Hybrid Propulsion System |
| Reported to NHTSA | 13 June 2019 |
| Model years | 9999-9999 |
| Vehicles named | CUMMINS VEHICLE CONTROL UNIT |
What the notice says today
The consequence
An unexpected loss of drive and power steering may increase the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Cummins has notified the only vehicle manufacturer affected, and Cummins will work with the vehicle owners to update the VCU software with a revised version, free of charge. The recall began June 19, 2019. Owners may contact Cummins customer service at 1-800-286-6467.
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 46 notices in the record whose component field names hybrid propulsion system. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 57 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 19E040, wording as read on 15 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/19e040/
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 Cummins notices we hold
- 26E011: PD7000 Electric Drive, part number BES CM0904 EV104B
- 25E018: the high voltage battery packs in certain PowerDrive 7000 electric drivetrains
- 25E004: L9 diesel engines, part number D563027BX03
- 24V934: 2022-2024 Power Generation C275D2RE trailer-mounted generators
- 24V192: 2023-2024 Power Generation C275D2RE trailers
- 24E106: B6.7 Diesel Engines part numbers RA11741 and RA11769, and F3
- 24E038: Cummins L9 diesel engines with part number D563027BX03
- 23E080: L9N Natural Gas Engines, part number D883007BX03
All 45 Cummins 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 19E040 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
1393b46e - Consequence
d328764d - Remedy
2dada6f4
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 19E040 · how the whole register is watched
Put this notice on your site
A small badge that links here and names the register's reference. It costs one line of HTML and needs no key.
The badge is free to use. It links to this page and nowhere else, and it never shows advertising.
Owners of these cars
No register publishes what happens after the letter. Owners do: tell us, in two taps.
Anonymous: no account, no cookie, nothing you type is stored beyond these choices. Figures appear once 3 owners have answered, and are published with the record under CC BY 4.0.