Bentley Bentayga Hybrid, model year 2023. Filed by Bentley Motors, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 24 November 2025. 120 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Bentley Motors, Inc. (Bentley) is recalling certain 2023 Bentayga Hybrid vehicles. The high voltage battery may overheat while charging.
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.
Bentley's own number for this recall: RE25/46. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25V811 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 25V811 cover?
- Bentley Bentayga Hybrid, model year 2023.
- What is wrong with them?
- Bentley Motors, Inc. (Bentley) is recalling certain 2023 Bentayga Hybrid vehicles. The high voltage battery may overheat while charging.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A high voltage battery that overheats increases the risk of a fire.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will update the high voltage battery software, and replace the high voltage battery if necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed January 21, 2026. Owners may contact Bentley customer service at 1-800-777-6923. Bentley's number for this recall is RE25/46.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Bentley calls this recall RE25/46, 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 high voltage battery that overheats increases the risk of a fire.”
affected
in the notice
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| Campaign | 25V811 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Bentley Motors, Inc. |
| System at fault | Electrical System:Propulsion System:Hybrid Management:Power Control Unit/Module (Hpcu):Software |
| Reported to NHTSA | 24 November 2025 |
| Model years | 2023-2023 |
| Vehicles named | BENTLEY BENTAYGA HYBRID |
What the notice says today
The defect
Bentley Motors, Inc. (Bentley) is recalling certain 2023 Bentayga Hybrid vehicles. The high voltage battery may overheat while charging.
The consequence
A high voltage battery that overheats increases the risk of a fire.
The remedy
Dealers will update the high voltage battery software, and replace the high voltage battery if necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed January 21, 2026. Owners may contact Bentley customer service at 1-800-777-6923. Bentley's number for this recall is RE25/46. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will be searchable on NHTSA.gov beginning January 26, 2025.
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 f88d12dc06dde894660c6525cf3af71f…, 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.
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 25V811, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v811/
The copy quoted above hashes to f88d12dc06dde894660c6525cf3af71f…. 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 Bentley notices we hold
- 26V330: 2026 Continental GT and Continental GTC
- 26V231: 2026 Bentayga
- 26V181: 2025 Bentayga
- 25V648: 2025-2026 Continental GTC, Continental GT, and 2025 Flying Spur
- 23V592: 2017-2023 Bentayga
- 23V386: 2022-2023 Bentayga 5-seat
- 23V314: 2021-2023 Flying Spur
- 23V152: 2020-2021 Continental GTC
All 32 Bentley 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 25V811 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
ee13fc17 - Consequence
e335b90a - 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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