Recall Register

Ford Ranger EV: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 2 recall campaigns for the Ford Ranger EV, model years 1998 to 2001. NHTSA has 28 complaints on file for this model line. 1 of the 4 model years have a page on this register.

Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 19982
  2. 19991
  3. 20001
  4. 20010
Ford Ranger EV: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2001 Ford Ranger EV NHTSA page012171%
2000 Ford Ranger EV NHTSA page1686%1,260
1999 Ford Ranger EV NHTSA page1457%1,260
1998 Ford Ranger EV2686%1,286

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Components in the complaints

31 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

Ford Ranger EV: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Engine and Engine Cooling161.35
Vehicle Speed Control161.35
Power Train96.83
Air Bags96.83
Tires64.52
Electrical System64.52
Suspension64.52
Unknown or Other64.52
Seat Belts64.52
Structure64.52

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Ford Ranger EV, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1998, with 1 campaign.
Complaints about the Ford Ranger EV, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2005, with 6 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Ford: all 202 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Ford Ranger EV: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/ford/ranger-ev/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
30 Sep 2026
Manufacturer in the recall file
FORD MOTOR COMPANY

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which Ford Ranger EV model years have the most recall campaigns?
1998 with 2, 2000 with 1, 1999 with 1. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Ford Ranger EV model year has the most complaints?
The 2001 model year, with 12 of the 28 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Ford Ranger EV name?
Engine and Engine Cooling: 5 component mentions. Vehicle Speed Control: 5 component mentions. Power Train: 3 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Ford Ranger EV?
2 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.