Lightning Emotors Fe4, model years 2021 to 2022. Filed by Lightning eMotors Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 16 December 2022. 27 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Lightning eMotors Inc. (LeM) is recalling certain 2021-2022 FE4-129 vehicles equipped with Romeo Power battery packs. The high voltage battery may lose traction power while driving or fail to start.
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.
Lightning Emotors's own number for this recall: 2022-002. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 22V934 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 22V934 cover?
- Lightning Emotors Fe4, model years 2021-2022.
- What is wrong with them?
- Lightning eMotors Inc. (LeM) is recalling certain 2021-2022 FE4-129 vehicles equipped with Romeo Power battery packs. The high voltage battery may lose traction power while driving or fail to start.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A sudden loss of traction power while driving increases the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. LeM will replace the battery, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed February 6, 2023. Owners may contact LeM customer service at 1-970-744-4926 or 1-800-223-0740. LeM's number for this recall is LeM Recall 2022-002.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Lightning Emotors calls this recall 2022-002, 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 traction power while driving increases the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 22V934 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Lightning eMotors Inc. |
| System at fault | Electrical System:Propulsion System:Traction Battery |
| Reported to NHTSA | 16 December 2022 |
| Model years | 2021-2022 |
| Vehicles named | LIGHTNING EMOTORS FE4 |
What the notice says today
The consequence
A sudden loss of traction power while driving increases the risk of a crash.
The remedy
LeM will replace the battery, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed February 6, 2023. Owners may contact LeM customer service at 1-970-744-4926 or 1-800-223-0740. LeM's number for this recall is LeM Recall 2022-002.
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.
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 22V934, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/22v934/
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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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 22V934 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
d31f180c - Consequence
5d0fb307 - 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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