Polestar Polestar 2, model years 2021 to 2024. Filed by Polestar Automotive USA, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 2 July 2025. 2 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Polestar Automotive USA, Inc. (Polestar) is recalling certain 2021 and 2024 Polestar 2 vehicles. In certain driving scenarios while coasting down a hill and using "One Pedal Drive," the vehicle may lose brake function.
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.
Polestar's own number for this recall: RP1061. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25V409 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 25V409 cover?
- Polestar Polestar 2, model years 2021-2024.
- What is wrong with them?
- Polestar Automotive USA, Inc. (Polestar) is recalling certain 2021 and 2024 Polestar 2 vehicles. In certain driving scenarios while coasting down a hill and using "One Pedal Drive," the vehicle may lose brake function.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A loss of brake function increases the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Owners are advised not to use "One Pedal Drive" until the repair has been completed. Polestar has released an over-the-air (OTA) software update, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed July 18, 2025. Owners may contact Polestar's customer service at 1-800-806-2504.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Polestar calls this recall RP1061, 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 loss of brake function increases the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V409 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Polestar Automotive USA, Inc. |
| System at fault | Service Brakes, Hydraulic:Power Assist:Electric:Control Module:Software |
| Reported to NHTSA | 2 July 2025 |
| Model years | 2021-2024 |
| Vehicles named | POLESTAR POLESTAR 2 |
What the notice says today
The defect
Polestar Automotive USA, Inc. (Polestar) is recalling certain 2021 and 2024 Polestar 2 vehicles. In certain driving scenarios while coasting down a hill and using "One Pedal Drive," the vehicle may lose brake function.
The consequence
A loss of brake function increases the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Owners are advised not to use "One Pedal Drive" until the repair has been completed. Polestar has released an over-the-air (OTA) software update, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed July 18, 2025. Owners may contact Polestar's customer service at 1-800-806-2504. Polestar's number for this recall is RP1061.
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 602e7442b35baf1116bd6391189e9edc…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 583 notices in the record whose component field names service brakes, hydraulic. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 37 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
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 2025333, recorded 17 June 2025 (15 days before the American filing)
- European Union: Safety Gate alert SR/02509/25, published 11 July 2025, raised by Portugal (the Commission’s own page) (9 days after the American filing)
Matched on RP1061, 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 25V409, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v409/
The copy quoted above hashes to 602e7442b35baf1116bd6391189e9edc…. 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 Polestar notices we hold
- 26V037: 2025 Polestar 3
- 25V615: 2021-2025 Polestar 2
- 25V555: 2025 Polestar 3
- 25V453: 2025 Polestar 3
- 25V420: 2025 Polestar 3
- 25V293: Polestar 3
- 25V280: 2021-2025 Polestar 2
- 24V940: 2025 Polestar 3 hybrid electric
All 17 Polestar 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 25V409 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
48c3e771 - Consequence
6c0d9919 - 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 25V409 · how the whole register is watched
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