2021 Ford Mustang Mach E defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 2021 Ford Mustang Mach E. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.

• Collisions Involving Ford BlueCruise
  Engineering Analysis EA25001 · opened Jan 17, 2025 · still open

  On April 25, 2024, NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) opened a Preliminary Evaluation (PE24012) to assess BlueCruise, a partial driving automation system available on certain vehicles manufactured by Ford Motor Company (Ford). NHTSA opened the investigation after the agency received notice of two fatal colli…

• Collisions Involving Ford BlueCruise
  Preliminary Evaluation PE24012 · opened Apr 25, 2024 · closed Jan 17, 2025

  On April 25, 2024, NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) opened a Preliminary Evaluation (PE24012) to assess BlueCruise, a partial driving automation system available on certain vehicles manufactured by Ford Motor Company (Ford). NHTSA opened the investigation after the agency received notice of two fatal colli…

• High Voltage Battery Contactor Failure
  Recall Query RQ23004 · opened Aug 17, 2023 · closed Dec 6, 2023 · led to recall 23V687

  On August 17, 2023, the Office of Defects Investigations (ODI) opened RQ23-004 to investigate instances of loss of motor power due to overheating high voltage battery contactors in model year (MY) 2021-2022 Ford Mustang Mach-E vehicles (subject vehicles). This Recall Query (RQ) was opened after receiving 12 consumer co…

• Pedestrian alert sounds
  Defect Petition DP22005 · opened Jan 27, 2023 · closed Aug 7, 2023 · led to recall 22V063000

  NHTSA received a petition on or about July 18, 2022, requesting that Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) 141 be applied to all electric and hybrid vehicles operating in the United States. The petition can be reviewed at NHTSA.gov under ODI Number 11486072. FMVSS 141 establishes performance requirements for pe…