Ford Fusion, model years 2019 to 2020. Filed by Ford Motor Company and reported to NHTSA on 23 June 2023. 14,452 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2019-2020 Fusion PHEV vehicles. The battery energy control module (BECM) may become damaged due to excessive voltage and current flow.
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.
Ford's own number for this recall: 23S33. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 23V440 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 23V440 cover?
- Ford Fusion, model years 2019-2020.
- What is wrong with them?
- Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2019-2020 Fusion PHEV vehicles. The battery energy control module (BECM) may become damaged due to excessive voltage and current flow.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A damaged BECM can result in a loss of drive power or fire, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Owners are advised not to charge their vehicles until the remedy is completed. Dealers will replace the battery and update the BECM software for free, or Ford will repurchase the vehicle.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Ford calls this recall 23S33, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.
- Has this notice changed since it was announced?
- Yes. The consequence was reworded on 15 Sep 2026. Both versions are on this page, with the date each was read.
Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.
Owners of this vehicle were written to on 15 May 2025. The consequence was reworded on 15 September 2026, 488 days later, so the letter described the earlier version. Read both versions.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “A damaged BECM can result in a loss of drive power or fire, increasing the risk of a crash or injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 23V440 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Ford Motor Company |
| System at fault | Electrical System:Propulsion System:Traction Battery:Management System/Energy Control Module (BMS/Becm) |
| Reported to NHTSA | 23 June 2023 |
| Model years | 2019-2020 |
| Vehicles named | FORD FUSION |
What the notice says today
The consequence
A damaged BECM can result in a loss of drive power or fire, increasing the risk of a crash or injury.
The remedy
Owners are advised not to charge their vehicles until the remedy is completed. Dealers will replace the battery and update the BECM software for free, or Ford will repurchase the vehicle. If your vehicle is currently operating normally, Ford has authorized dealers to replace the fuse block and a software update as an interim repair before the availability of remedy parts for the final repair. This repair will be free of charge (parts and labor). As an alternative remedy, Ford is offering a vehicle refund. Please see Ford's owner notification letter or contact Ford for full details. Owner notification letters were mailed May 15, 2025. Owners may contact Ford customer service at 1-866-436-7332. Ford's number for this recall is 23S33.
What it said before
This notice has been edited since it was first published. NHTSA shows only the current version. Both are below, read straight from the agency at the times shown, with the words that moved marked.
The consequence was rewritten
1 words added, 3 removed. The notice grew from 101 to 91 characters.
A damaged BECM can result in a loss of drive power or fire, increasing the risk of a crash or injury.
A damaged BECM can result in a loss of drive power or fire, increasing the risk of a crash.
Nothing above is our paraphrase. Both columns are the agency’s own text; only the marking is ours.
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 . The consequence was last reworded on , and both versions are held.
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 2023355, recorded 23 June 2023 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on 23S33, 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 23V440, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/23v440/
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 23V440 on 5 September 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
c8b5098b - Consequence
c517d710 - 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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