Polestar Polestar 1, model years 2020 to 2021. Filed by Polestar Automotive USA, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 14 December 2022. 66 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Polestar Automotive USA, Inc. (Polestar) is recalling certain 2020-2021 Polestar 1 vehicles. Defective high-voltage battery cells may cause the battery to overheat when fully charged.
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.
Polestar's own number for this recall: R10202. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 22V926 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 22V926 cover?
- Polestar Polestar 1, model years 2020-2021.
- What is wrong with them?
- Polestar Automotive USA, Inc. (Polestar) is recalling certain 2020-2021 Polestar 1 vehicles. Defective high-voltage battery cells may cause the battery to overheat when fully charged.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- The high-voltage battery overheating increases the risk of a fire.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Not yet, on the wording NHTSA publishes today. Dealers will replace the high-voltage battery cells, free of charge. Remedy parts are expected to become ready by June 2023. As an interim repair, owners will need to take their vehicle to a dealership for a software update. Interim notices were mailed January 31, 2023.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Polestar calls this recall R10202, 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: “The high-voltage battery overheating increases the risk of a fire.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 22V926 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Polestar Automotive USA, Inc. |
| System at fault | Electrical System:12v/24v/48v Battery |
| Reported to NHTSA | 14 December 2022 |
| Model years | 2020-2021 |
| Vehicles named | POLESTAR POLESTAR 1 |
What the notice says today
The consequence
The high-voltage battery overheating increases the risk of a fire.
The remedy
Dealers will replace the high-voltage battery cells, free of charge. Remedy parts are expected to become ready by June 2023. As an interim repair, owners will need to take their vehicle to a dealership for a software update. Interim notices were mailed January 31, 2023. Owners may contact Polestar customer service at 1-800-806-2504. Polestar's number for this recall is R10202. Note: This recall has been superseded by Recall 23V361 (R102316). Any vehicle that received the interim repair under Recall 22V926 (R10202) will still need to have the remedy for 23V361 (R102316) performed.
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 same recall in other countries
This campaign carries a manufacturer code that also appears in another country’s register, which means the same defect was recalled there too.
- Canada: Transport Canada recall 2022716, recorded 15 December 2022 (within a week of the American filing)
- European Union: Safety Gate alert A12/01835/22, published 23 December 2022, raised by Belgium (the Commission’s own page) (9 days after the American filing)
Matched on R10202, the manufacturer’s own number for this campaign, which is the only field the registers share. Exact match, nothing paired on brand and date. The two dates are adjacent instruments rather than the same one, so a difference of a day or two means nothing.
How often the two countries file on the same day · The European alerts
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 22V926, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/22v926/
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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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 22V926 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
b5bbc57f - Consequence
d31e95e2 - 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 22V926 · how the whole register is watched
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