USAOne complaint is what put the 2024 Ford Maverick Hybrid in front of federal safety regulators. NHTSA has opened defect petition DP26007 after an owner in Albuquerque, New Mexico asked the agency to look into a repeated loss of anti-lock and regenerative braking on his truck.
A petition is not a recall and not yet an investigation. What the agency has agreed to do is read the filing and decide whether to open one.
What the owner reported
The petitioner bought a Maverick Hybrid XLT in November 2024. He says the braking faults began that January: pedal pulsation, shuddering, and stopping performance that did not match the pedal, with specific fault codes logged each time. Four repair attempts followed, and he puts the truck’s combined time out of service at more than 50 days. On 25 September 2025, according to the filing, the Maverick failed to stop for a vehicle crossing his path and hit it. Accounts of the petition describe one crash and no injuries.
He also asserts that the 2024 model year was wrongly left out of earlier Ford brake-control software recalls. That claim is his, made in the filing. Neither NHTSA nor Ford has accepted it, and no account of the petition names the campaigns he means.
Where 82,040 comes from
The figure is the petition’s own estimate of how many 2024 Maverick Hybrids sit within the potential scope, roughly a model-year population rather than a count of trucks with the fault. It is not NHTSA’s finding, and the agency has not said a defect exists in any of them.
From here the office either grants the petition, which opens a formal defect investigation that could in time lead to a recall order, or denies it and publishes its reasons in the Federal Register. Ford has not commented publicly on the filing.
