Orange Ev E-Triever, Orange Ev Husk-E, Orange Ev T-Series Electric Truck, model years 2017 to 2025. Filed by Orange EV and reported to NHTSA on 20 May 2025. 301 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Orange EV is recalling certain 2024 HUSK-e, 2023-2025 e-TRIEVER, and 2017-2024 T-Series trucks. The pintle hook partially blocks the center of the backup lights. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 108, "Lamps, Reflective Devices, and …
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Orange Ev's own number for this recall: 2025-SRC-03. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25V328 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 25V328 cover?
- Orange Ev E-Triever, Orange Ev Husk-E, Orange Ev T-Series Electric Truck, model years 2017-2025.
- What is wrong with them?
- Orange EV is recalling certain 2024 HUSK-e, 2023-2025 e-TRIEVER, and 2017-2024 T-Series trucks. The pintle hook partially blocks the center of the backup lights.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Obstructed backup lights can reduce the vehicle's visibility to pedestrians or other drivers, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Orange EV service will replace the rear passenger taillight, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed August 15, 2025. Owners may contact Orange EV customer service at 1-866-688-5223.
- 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 2025-SRC-03, 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 backup lights can reduce the vehicle's visibility to pedestrians or other drivers, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V328 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Orange EV |
| System at fault | Exterior Lighting:Back Up Lights |
| Reported to NHTSA | 20 May 2025 |
| Model years | 2017-2025 |
| Vehicles named | ORANGE EV E-TRIEVER, ORANGE EV HUSK-E, ORANGE EV T-SERIES ELECTRIC TRUCK |
What the notice says today
The defect
Orange EV is recalling certain 2024 HUSK-e, 2023-2025 e-TRIEVER, and 2017-2024 T-Series trucks. The pintle hook partially blocks the center of the backup lights. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 108, "Lamps, Reflective Devices, and Associated Equipment."
The consequence
Obstructed backup lights can reduce the vehicle's visibility to pedestrians or other drivers, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Orange EV service will replace the rear passenger taillight, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed August 15, 2025. Owners may contact Orange EV customer service at 1-866-688-5223.
What it said before
Nothing has changed while we have been watching. We last read the wording of this campaign on 17 September 2026, and it matched the copy we already held.
That copy hashes to cdc17837f1af9ab8dddb600dca0d2773…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
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
- Orange Ev E-Triever recalls: 11 US campaigns
- Orange Ev Husk-E recalls: 11 US campaigns
- Orange Ev T-Series Electric Truck recalls: 12 US campaigns
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 25V328, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v328/
The copy quoted above hashes to cdc17837f1af9ab8dddb600dca0d2773…. If the notice is reworded later, that fingerprint will not match, which is how a reader checks that the quotation was of the version we say it was.
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
- 26V453: 2023-2024 e-TRIEVER, 2020-2023 T-Series Tandem Terminal Truck, and 2024-2026 HUSK-e Tandem Terminal
- 25V360: 2023-2025 HUSK-e, e-TRIEVER, and 2022-2024 T-Series trucks
- 25V122: 2023-2024 HUSK-e XP terminal trucks
- 24V965: 2023-2024 HUSK-e, 2023-2025 e-TRIEVER, and 2017-2024 T-Series trucks
- 24V963: 2023-2024 e-TRIEVER and 2018-2023 T-Series trucks built with beavertail frames
- 22V592: 2021-2022 T-Series Pure Electric Terminal Truck and e-Triever
All 7 Orange Ev 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 25V328 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
bdbe74b4 - Consequence
73a0fc23 - 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 25V328 · how the whole register is watched
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