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Orange Ev E-Triever, Orange Ev Husk-E, Orange Ev T-Series Electric Truck, model years 2018 to 2024. Filed by Orange EV and reported to NHTSA on 20 December 2024. 148 vehicles potentially affected.

What the notice says Orange EV (OEV) is recalling certain 2023-2024 HUSK-e, 2023-2025 e-TRIEVERs, and 2018-2023 T-Series trucks built with frame extenders. The frame extenders obstruct the rear turn signals, reverse, brake, and taillights. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety …

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.

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Orange Ev's own number for this recall: 2024-SRC-04. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 24V964 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 24V964 cover?
Orange Ev E-Triever, Orange Ev Husk-E, Orange Ev T-Series Electric Truck, model years 2018-2024.
What is wrong with them?
Orange EV (OEV) is recalling certain 2023-2024 HUSK-e, 2023-2025 e-TRIEVERs, and 2018-2023 T-Series trucks built with frame extenders. The frame extenders obstruct the rear turn signals, reverse, brake, and taillights.
What can happen if it is not put right?
Obstructed rear lights can reduce the vehicle's visibility to pedestrians or other drivers, increasing the risk of a crash.
Is there a fix yet?
Not yet, on the wording NHTSA publishes today. Owners are advised to limit on-road use while operating without a trailer until the remedy is completed. OEV will relocate the rear taillights and replace the original with combination lights, free of charge.
What should I do now?
Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Orange Ev calls this recall 2024-SRC-04, 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: “Obstructed rear lights can reduce the vehicle's visibility to pedestrians or other drivers, increasing the risk of a crash.”

148vehicles potentially
affected
3models named
in the notice
0rewrites we have
caught
reported 20 December 2024owners told 15 August 2025today
The defect reached the regulator on 20 December 2024. Owners were written to 238 days later, on 15 August 2025. The median across the 14,869 American recalls that carry both dates is 41 days, and nine in ten owners are written to within 107. This campaign is in the slowest tenth of the register.
Campaign24V964
Filed byOrange EV
System at faultExterior Lighting
Reported to NHTSA20 December 2024
Model years2018-2024
Vehicles namedORANGE EV E-TRIEVER, ORANGE EV HUSK-E, ORANGE EV T-SERIES ELECTRIC TRUCK

What the notice says today

The consequence

Obstructed rear lights can reduce the vehicle's visibility to pedestrians or other drivers, increasing the risk of a crash.

The remedy

Owners are advised to limit on-road use while operating without a trailer until the remedy is completed. OEV will relocate the rear taillights and replace the original with combination lights, free of charge. Interim owner notification letters explaining the safety risk were mailed February 21, 2025. A second notice will be sent once the remedy is available. Owners may contact OEV customer service at 1-866-688-5223.

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 663 notices in the record whose component field names exterior lighting. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 43 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

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CarsMultiverse, recall 24V964, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/24v964/

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 Orange Ev notices we hold

All 9 Orange Ev campaigns we hold · Every manufacturer in the record

The fingerprint of this notice

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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 24V964 · how the whole register is watched

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