Jaguar Land Rover Recalls 23,677 Hybrid SUVs Over Stalls

Jaguar Land Rover is recalling 23,677 hybrid SUVs in the United States over a fault that can cut drive power while the vehicle is moving. The recall, filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on September 17, 2026, as campaign 26V599, covers mild hybrid vehicles from nine Jaguar and Land Rover model lines. Owner notification letters were due to be mailed by November 13, 2026.

The failed part is the DC-DC converter, the component that manages voltage in the 48-volt mild hybrid system. The company's filing describes two related faults. Under heavy electrical load, the converter can fail to manage that load and go offline. A separate software bug can take the converter offline at startup, before the vehicle has moved at all. Either way, the result can be a loss of drive power and a loss of exterior lighting, which is the combination that turns an electrical fault into a crash risk.

Two model lines carry most of the recall. The Range Rover Sport, from the 2019 through 2024 model years, accounts for 10,973 vehicles, and the Land Rover Defender, 2020 through 2024, accounts for 8,100. Then come the Range Rover at 3,849 and the Discovery at 552. The remaining five lines are small: 79 Jaguar F-Pace, 76 Range Rover Velar, 35 Range Rover Evoque, 10 Jaguar E-Pace and 3 Discovery Sport vehicles. The vehicles were built at the Solihull plant in England, and the company estimates 100 percent of the recalled population carries the defect.

The population wasn't set by counting broken converters. Jaguar Land Rover says it couldn't consistently reproduce the failure in hardware, so it scoped the recall through field data analysis and AI modelling, taking in mild hybrids built through the end of the 2024 model year. Vehicles with an earlier converter specification are excluded because they're already covered by two prior recalls, D126 and H575.

This is the second time this year the same system has produced a recall. In April 2026 the company recalled 170,169 vehicles for a hardware defect in the same converter and applied a software update in that campaign. The investigation that followed found the software fault behind this recall. Between April and September 2026, the company received 393 claims and field reports connected to the problem. It reports no accidents and no injuries.

The remedy is software, and it's free. Dealers install an update that corrects the load-balancing fault and the startup bug, and the update adds a limp-home mode that switches on automatically if the converter drops offline while the vehicle is in use, so a failure that still happens doesn't have to mean a full loss of power. Dealers were notified on October 1, 2026, and the manufacturer's campaign number is E008.

Owners don't need to wait for the letter to check. Any of the nine model lines in the year ranges above, with a mild hybrid powertrain, is worth a VIN check at NHTSA.gov/recalls or a call to a dealer, because the defect estimate is 100 percent of the listed population. A vehicle that loses its exterior lights along with drive power gives its driver very little to work with, and the update that prevents it costs an owner nothing but the trip.