Xos Rm01, Xos Sa01, Xos Sv05, model years 2021 to 2022. Filed by Xos, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 3 March 2023. 275 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Xos, Inc. (Xos) is recalling certain 2021 RM01, SA01, and 2021-2022 SV05 vehicles. The bolts connecting the electronic parking brake rotor to the driveshaft may have been improperly tightened.
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.
Xos's own number for this recall: REC 002-23. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 23V145 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 23V145 cover?
- Xos RM01, Xos Sa01, Xos SV05, model years 2021-2022.
- What is wrong with them?
- Xos, Inc. (Xos) is recalling certain 2021 RM01, SA01, and 2021-2022 SV05 vehicles. The bolts connecting the electronic parking brake rotor to the driveshaft may have been improperly tightened.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Loose bolts may allow the driveshaft to separate, causing a loss of drive power and increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will replace the bolts and related hardware, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed April 19, 2023. Owners may contact Xos customer service at 1-818-316-1890. Xos's number for this recall is REC 002-23.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Xos calls this recall REC 002-23, 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: “Loose bolts may allow the driveshaft to separate, causing a loss of drive power and increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 23V145 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Xos, Inc. |
| System at fault | Power Train:Driveline:Driveshaft |
| Reported to NHTSA | 3 March 2023 |
| Model years | 2021-2022 |
| Vehicles named | XOS RM01, XOS SA01, XOS SV05 |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Loose bolts may allow the driveshaft to separate, causing a loss of drive power and increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will replace the bolts and related hardware, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed April 19, 2023. Owners may contact Xos customer service at 1-818-316-1890. Xos's number for this recall is REC 002-23.
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 816 notices in the record whose component field names power train. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 42 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 23V145, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/23v145/
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 Xos notices we hold
- 23V776: 2021-2022 SV05
- 23V760: 2021-2022 SV05 and 2021 SA01
- 23V127: 2021-2022 SV05 Stepvan
- 22V881: 2021 RM01, SA01 and 2021-2022 SV05
All 5 Xos 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 23V145 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
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9be9d434 - 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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