Orange Ev Husk-E, model years 2023 to 2025. Filed by Orange EV and reported to NHTSA on 27 June 2025. 20 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Orange EV (OEV) is recalling certain 2023-2025 HUSK-e terminal trucks previously remedied under Recall 25V367 (2025-SRC-04). The wrong size washer was installed in the thermal fuse bolted joint during the previous repair.
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.
Orange Ev's own number for this recall: 2025-SRC-05. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25V445 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 25V445 cover?
- Orange Ev Husk-E, model years 2023-2025.
- What is wrong with them?
- Orange EV (OEV) is recalling certain 2023-2025 HUSK-e terminal trucks previously remedied under Recall 25V367 (2025-SRC-04). The wrong size washer was installed in the thermal fuse bolted joint during the previous repair.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- The incorrect washer can cause the bus bar connection to loosen or open, resulting in electrical arcing and increasing the risk of a fire.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. OEV will install the correctly sized washer, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed August 4, 2025. Owners may contact OEV customer service at 1-866-688-5223. OEV's number for this recall is 2025-SRC-05.
- 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-05, 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: “The incorrect washer can cause the bus bar connection to loosen or open, resulting in electrical arcing and increasing the risk of a fire.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V445 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Orange EV |
| System at fault | Electrical System:Propulsion System:Critical Fasteners |
| Reported to NHTSA | 27 June 2025 |
| Model years | 2023-2025 |
| Vehicles named | ORANGE EV HUSK-E |
What the notice says today
The defect
Orange EV (OEV) is recalling certain 2023-2025 HUSK-e terminal trucks previously remedied under Recall 25V367 (2025-SRC-04). The wrong size washer was installed in the thermal fuse bolted joint during the previous repair.
The consequence
The incorrect washer can cause the bus bar connection to loosen or open, resulting in electrical arcing and increasing the risk of a fire.
The remedy
OEV will install the correctly sized washer, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed August 4, 2025. Owners may contact OEV customer service at 1-866-688-5223. OEV's number for this recall is 2025-SRC-05.
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 52c50a80810909fd9d9dd19ad09f3599…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
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 . 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 25V445, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v445/
The copy quoted above hashes to 52c50a80810909fd9d9dd19ad09f3599…. 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
- 26V153: 2022-2023 T-Series Pure Electric Terminal Trucks, 2023-2025 e-TRIEVER, and 2023-2026 HUSK-e terminal trucks
- 26V102: 2018-2023 T-Series Pure Electric and 2024-2026 e-TRIEVER terminal trucks
- 25V612: 2017-2024 T-Series, 2023-2025 e-TRIEVER, and HUSK-e terminal trucks
- 25V571: 2024-2025 HUSK-e Tandem terminal trucks
- 25V367: 2023-2025 Husk-e terminal trucks
- 24V964: 2023-2024 HUSK-e, 2023-2025 e-TRIEVERs, and 2018-2023 T-Series trucks built with frame extenders
- 24V800: 2017-2024 T-Series and 2023-2024 e-TRIEVER terminal trucks
- 22V790: 2022 e-Triever
All 9 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 25V445 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
263c9851 - Consequence
5ba66621 - 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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