Kia EV6 — reported problems

What owners report: issue areas

Owner complaints are classified by the system they concern: 1,696 classifications in all. One complaint can concern several systems, so these add up to more than the number of complaints.

• Electrical system800 (47.2%)Official recall records for this system: 2, covering model years 2022–2024.
• Fuel system192 (11.3%)
• Powertrain (transmission & drivetrain)192 (11.3%)Official recall records for this system: 3, covering model years 2022–2023.
• Driver-assistance systems90 (5.3%)
• Engine76 (4.5%)
• Brakes50 (2.9%)Official recall records for this system: 1, covering model years 2022.

Other / uncategorized: 136 classifications (8.0%) were not assigned to a specific system by the source. They are counted but not treated as an issue area.

These are counts of records held by CarFaultIQ, not a failure rate. More records can simply mean more vehicles were sold or more owners reported. No vehicles-in-service figure exists in this data, so no reliability or risk score can be derived from it.

What the records are about, by source

Each source is kept separate: owner complaints, recalls, manufacturer communications and investigations are different kinds of record and are never added together. All model years.

• Owner complaints (1,070 records, model years 2022–2025) are most frequently classified under: electrical system, fuel system and powertrain (transmission & drivetrain).
• Manufacturer communications (314 records, model years 2022–2026) are most frequently classified under: electrical system, fuel system and powertrain (transmission & drivetrain).

"Most frequently classified under" reports how the records are filed by the source. It is not a finding about causes, and a record can be filed under more than one system. Read the individual records

Mileage reported when the issue occurred

• 56reports included a mileage
• 24,709average of those mileages

This is the mileage owners recorded at the time they reported, not an expected failure mileage and not a prediction for any individual vehicle. The lowest and highest figures on record are not shown: they are unverified odometer entries that include zeros and implausibly high readings, so they would not describe a real range. A median is not shown either, because the stored figures are group totals and a median cannot be recovered from them.

Evidence by model year

Records held per model year. Select a year to narrow this page to it.

1. 2022 361 records for 2022 361
2. 2023 211 records for 2023 211
3. 2024 114 records for 2024 114
4. 2025 72 records for 2025 72
5. 2026 4 records for 2026 4

Counts are not adjusted for how many vehicles were sold in each year, so a taller year is not necessarily a worse year.

Reports mentioning outcomes

• 40mention a crash
• 2mention a fire
• 18mention an injury
• 2mention a fatality

These are counts of records whose report mentioned the outcome. They are not a severity rating and not a safety assessment of this vehicle.

Official records held

• Safety recalls NHTSA 16
• Manufacturer communications NHTSA 314
• Investigations NHTSA 4
• Transport Canada recalls Transport Canada 16
• Owner complaints NHTSA 1,070

Explore the underlying evidence records