Zero Dsr/X, model year 2023. Filed by Zero Motorcycles Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 2 December 2025. 7 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Zero Motorcycles Inc. (Zero) is recalling certain 2023 DSR/X motorcycles. The motor controller may have been built with incorrect fasteners, causing higher resistance at the busbar joint and a loss of drive power.
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.
Zero's own number for this recall: SV-RCL-025-021. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25V834 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 25V834 cover?
- Zero DSR/X, model year 2023.
- What is wrong with them?
- Zero Motorcycles Inc. (Zero) is recalling certain 2023 DSR/X motorcycles. The motor controller may have been built with incorrect fasteners, causing higher resistance at the busbar joint and a loss of drive power.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A loss of drive power increases the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will replace the controller, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed January 19, 2026. Owners may contact Zero customer service at 1-888-841-8085. Zero's number for this recall is SV-RCL-025-021.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Zero calls this recall SV-RCL-025-021, 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 drive power increases the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V834 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Zero Motorcycles Inc. |
| System at fault | Electrical System:Propulsion System:Traction Motor:Controller |
| Reported to NHTSA | 2 December 2025 |
| Model years | 2023-2023 |
| Vehicles named | ZERO DSR/X |
What the notice says today
The defect
Zero Motorcycles Inc. (Zero) is recalling certain 2023 DSR/X motorcycles. The motor controller may have been built with incorrect fasteners, causing higher resistance at the busbar joint and a loss of drive power.
The consequence
A loss of drive power increases the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will replace the controller, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed January 19, 2026. Owners may contact Zero customer service at 1-888-841-8085. Zero's number for this recall is SV-RCL-025-021. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will be searchable on NHTSA.gov beginning December 19, 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 225535c9eda1bdbf682a34d9aa848822…, 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 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 2025667, recorded 2 December 2025 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on SVRCL025021, 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 25V834, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v834/
The copy quoted above hashes to 225535c9eda1bdbf682a34d9aa848822…. 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 Zero notices we hold
- 26V048: 2024-2025 DSR/X, DS, DSR, and DSRP motorcycles
- 25V587: 2023-2024 DSR/X, 2024 DS, DSR, and DSRP motorcycles
- 25V459: 2024 DSR/X, DS, DSR, and DSRP motorcycles
- 23E074: accessory chain kits, with part numbers 10-08127 and 10-08140
- 22V403: 2022 SR and SR/F motorcycles
- 21V940: 2022 SR, SR/F, and SR/S motorcycles
- 21V795: 2020 SR/F motorcycles
- 20V704: 2020 SR/F and SR/S motorcycles
All 18 Zero 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 25V834 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
6600c548 - Consequence
1daa818d - 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 25V834 · how the whole register is watched
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