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Hyundai Elexio recalled: federal notice covers all 1,619 electric SUVs over sudden braking

A voluntary recall for Hyundai's Chinese-built electric SUV is now on the Australian Government's vehicle register, and a fix requires replacement parts as well as new software.

The notice, in short

EVnews graphic summarising the Hyundai Elexio recall: 1,619 vehicles, unexpected braking risk, and parts plus software remedy
The federal notice lists 1,619 Elexio vehicles. Its remedy calls for replacement parts and a software update. Graphic: EVnews; data: Australian Government vehicle recall REC-006765

A voluntary recall covering 1,619 Hyundai Elexio electric SUVs has been published on the Australian Government’s vehicle recalls register. Notice REC-006765 appeared on 12 November 2026 under Hyundai’s campaign number 61D328. It covers the Hyundai ELEXIO (OE1c) for the 2025 and 2026 model years, all variants, and lists the responsible regulator as the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts.

The register describes the fault in these terms: “Due to a software issue, the Forward Collision Avoidance (FCA) system may continue to apply sudden/unexpected braking even though it is no longer necessary to avoid a collision or reduce impact.”

It sets out the risk as follows: “Sudden or unexpected braking may increase the risk of an accident, which can result in injury or death to vehicle occupants or other road users.”

A VIN list for the affected vehicles is attached to the notice as a downloadable CSV file, so owners can check whether their car is caught. The file contains 1,619 vehicle identification numbers, matching the affected-unit figure published on the notice.

A remedy that needs parts, not just code

Hyundai Motor Company Australia will contact owners once parts become available and ask them to book an appointment with an authorised Hyundai dealer for a software update and parts replacement, free of charge. The notice adds that affected owners can contact their dealer to arrange a loan vehicle until the replacement parts and software are ready.

That remedy wording is the detail that separates this campaign from the last one built on the same description. On 29 May 2026 the register published REC-006615, campaign 61D154, for 36,496 Hyundai Tucson (NX4) vehicles from the 2023 to 2026 model years. Its defect and hazard wording is identical, sentence for sentence, to the Elexio notice, but its remedy is a software update alone, with no parts replacement and no loan-vehicle note. Hyundai has not established a technical connection between the two campaigns, GoAuto reports.

GoAuto also reports that Hyundai issued an over-the-air update on 25 August 2026 to reduce unnecessary emergency braking, citing the company’s software update register. The federal recall has followed that update regardless.

What owners are being told

  • The register lists a contact phone of 1800 186 306 for the campaign.
  • Hyundai has not announced a general instruction for owners to stop driving their cars, according to GoAuto.
  • New deliveries have been paused until a remedy is available, CarExpert reports, and customers who cannot now take delivery are eligible for a loan vehicle.
  • Hyundai’s customer information sheet estimates the repair at February 2027, subject to review, as reported by CarExpert and GoAuto. That date does not appear on the federal notice.

How many are already on the road

The official 1,619 figure takes in cars already with customers as well as vehicles in stock or awaiting handover. CarExpert and GoAuto report that 944 Elexios had been delivered locally from launch to the end of October 2026. CarExpert describes the Elexio as the brand’s first Chinese-developed and Chinese-built model sold in Australia, with Australia the first right-hand-drive export market and customer deliveries beginning earlier this year.

Why a small-volume recall still matters

The Elexio is a modest seller in a market that has changed quickly underneath it. Battery electric vehicles accounted for 23.1 per cent of new vehicle sales in October 2026, according to the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries, up from 7.3 per cent a year earlier. A campaign that covers every example of a model delivered locally, and that needs hardware as well as a software revision to resolve, is a plain demonstration of how much of a modern vehicle’s safety performance now sits in driver assistance code.

Sources

Original source: Vehicle Recalls, Australian Government (REC-006765)