2025 Kia EV6
This year drew an ordinary 52 complaints for a Kia EV6 — the model's median is 132. What they were about is the unusual part: 9.6% of them mention order, against 2.9% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 52 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 132 |
| Involving a crash | 1 |
| Recalls | 0 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 110 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- order — 9.6% of this year's complaints, against 2.9% across the model's other years (3.3×).
- neutral — 9.6% of this year's complaints, against 3.3% across the model's other years (2.9×). Owners wrote it as: neutral, pulling.
- nor — 7.7% of this year's complaints, against 2.5% across the model's other years (3×). Owners wrote it as: nor, car just.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
The ICCU unit failed and the car first slowed and then stopped. I was able to pull off the road at an intersection. A tow truck had to jump charge the battery to allow the car to be shifted into neutral in order to pull it onto the tow truck.
Erratic behavior before pulling out of parking lot: STOP vehicle check power, check 12V battery Stop safely engage parking brake. All dash lights started flashing, going black, power couldn’t be maintained, thankfully not on highway yet. Complete car failure,…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Kia EV6 was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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