New Flyer Xe35, New Flyer Xe40, New Flyer Xe60, New Flyer Xhe40, New Flyer Xhe60, model years 2021 to 2026. Filed by New Flyer of America, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 13 March 2026. 1,196 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says New Flyer of America, Inc. (New Flyer) is recalling certain 2021-2025 XE35, 2021-2026 XE40, 2023-2025 XE60, 2023-2026 XHE40, and 2024-2026 XHE60 transit buses equipped with Accelera ELFA 3 control systems V1 and V2. An inverter software error may cause unintended acceleration or deceleration in certain conditions.
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.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 26V151 cover?
- New Flyer Xe35, New Flyer Xe40, New Flyer Xe60, New Flyer Xhe40, New Flyer Xhe60, model years 2021-2026.
- What is wrong with them?
- New Flyer of America, Inc. (New Flyer) is recalling certain 2021-2025 XE35, 2021-2026 XE40, 2023-2025 XE60, 2023-2026 XHE40, and 2024-2026 XHE60 transit buses equipped with Accelera ELFA 3 control systems V1 and V2.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Unintended acceleration or deceleration can increase the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. New Flyer will update the inverter software, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed April 30, 2026. Owners may contact New Flyer's customer service at 1-800-241-2947.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on.
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: “Unintended acceleration or deceleration can increase the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V151 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | New Flyer of America, Inc. |
| System at fault | Electrical System:Propulsion System:Inverter |
| Reported to NHTSA | 13 March 2026 |
| Model years | 2021-2026 |
| Vehicles named | NEW FLYER XE35, NEW FLYER XE40, NEW FLYER XE60, NEW FLYER XHE40, NEW FLYER XHE60 |
What the notice says today
The defect
New Flyer of America, Inc. (New Flyer) is recalling certain 2021-2025 XE35, 2021-2026 XE40, 2023-2025 XE60, 2023-2026 XHE40, and 2024-2026 XHE60 transit buses equipped with Accelera ELFA 3 control systems V1 and V2. An inverter software error may cause unintended acceleration or deceleration in certain conditions.
The consequence
Unintended acceleration or deceleration can increase the risk of a crash.
The remedy
New Flyer will update the inverter software, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed April 30, 2026. Owners may contact New Flyer's customer service at 1-800-241-2947.
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 ad8c50170de16f2b06a1767b2420cb89…, 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
- New Flyer Xe35 recalls: 9 US campaigns
- New Flyer Xe40 recalls: 17 US campaigns
- New Flyer Xe60 recalls: 10 US campaigns
- New Flyer Xhe40 recalls: 5 US campaigns
- New Flyer Xhe60 recalls: 4 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 26V151, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v151/
The copy quoted above hashes to ad8c50170de16f2b06a1767b2420cb89…. 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 New Flyer notices we hold
- 26V279: 2022 XE40 transit buses
- 25V898: XD35, XDE35, XE35, XN35, XD40, XDE40, XE40, XHE40, XN40, XT40, XD60, XDE60, XE60, XN60, XT60, and XHE60 transit buses
- 25V631: 2019 XE35, 2021-2025 XE35, XE40, and XE60 transit buses
- 25V566: 2013, 2017-2025 XE40, 2019-2025 XE60, XE35, 2023-2025 XHE40, and 2024-2025 XHE60 buses
- 25V542: 2012-2025 Xcelsior buses
- 25V053: 2023-2024 XDE60, 2024 XD35, XD40, and XD60 transit buses equipped with Cummins L9 diesel engines
- 24V425: 2023 XD35, XD40, and XD60
- 24V056: 2021-2023 XE35, XE40, 2021-2024 XE60, and 2023-2024 XHE40
All 43 New Flyer 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 26V151 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
d6cac259 - Consequence
0b5dae00 - 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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