Volvo Xc40, model years 2021 to 2022. Filed by Volvo Car USA, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 24 February 2021. 2,278 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Volvo Car USA, LLC (Volvo Car) is recalling certain 2021-2022 XC40 Recharge vehicles. The Battery Energy Control Module (BECM) microprocessor may reset and cause the high voltage system to disconnect.
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.
Volvo's own number for this recall: R10078. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 21V109 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 21V109 cover?
- Volvo XC40, model years 2021-2022.
- What is wrong with them?
- Volvo Car USA, LLC (Volvo Car) is recalling certain 2021-2022 XC40 Recharge vehicles. The Battery Energy Control Module (BECM) microprocessor may reset and cause the high voltage system to disconnect.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A disconnected high voltage system can cause a loss of drive power, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Volvo Car will notify owners, and dealers will install a software update, free of charge. The recall began March 30, 2021. Owners may contact Volvo Car customer service at 1-888-458-1552. Volvo Car's number for this recall is R10078.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Volvo calls this recall R10078, 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 disconnected high voltage system can cause a loss of drive power, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 21V109 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Volvo Car USA, LLC |
| System at fault | Electrical System:Propulsion System:Traction Battery:Management System/Energy Control Module (BMS/Becm):Software |
| Reported to NHTSA | 24 February 2021 |
| Model years | 2021-2022 |
| Vehicles named | VOLVO XC40 |
What the notice says today
The consequence
A disconnected high voltage system can cause a loss of drive power, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Volvo Car will notify owners, and dealers will install a software update, free of charge. The recall began March 30, 2021. Owners may contact Volvo Car customer service at 1-888-458-1552. Volvo Car's number for this recall is R10078.
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.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
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 Volvo notices we hold
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- 26V444: 2026 VOLVO VHD, VNL (4), VNR (4), VN, and VAH
- 26V350: 2026 VAH, 2026-2027 VN, VHD, VNL (4), and 2027 VNR (4)
- 26V260: 2026-2027 VNR (4) and 2025-2027 VNL (4)
- 26V208: 2025-2027 VNL (4) and 2026-2027 VNR (4)
- 26V186: 2025-2026 VNL (4)
- 26V184: 2025-2026 VNL (4)
- 26V136: 2025-2026 EX30 and 2026 EX30CC
All 211 Volvo 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 21V109 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
f139d858 - Consequence
3f1f5cc9 - 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 21V109 · how the whole register is watched
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