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Kia EV6: reliability & safety rating

The Kia EV6 should be one of the better electric cars to own in terms of passenger safety and reliability

Overall rating

4.0 out of 5

Reliability & safety rating rating

5.0 out of 5

Euro NCAPAdult protectionChild protectionSafety assist
5 stars (2022)90%86%87%

Kia's seven-year warranty and generally strong reliability record have seen it perform well in customer-satisfaction surveys in the past. The EV6 itself didn’t appear in our latest Driver Power survey, but Kia managed a very respectable third place finish in our best manufacturer rankings. The EV6’s safety is excellent, too, confirmed by a five-star independent evaluation of the car's crashworthiness from Euro NCAP.

Kia EV6 reliability & problems

We’ve not heard anything to suggest that the EV6 is suffering from serious reliability issues, and even if there is the odd glitch, most things should be covered by the standard seven-year, 100,000-mile warranty. Whichever way you look at it, EV6 ownership should be relatively pain-free.

Safety

The closely related Hyundai Ioniq 5 scored a five-star Euro NCAP safety rating in 2021, and the Kia EV6 followed suit a year later. In fact, both cars’ individual category scores were pretty similar. The EV6 was rated highly for adult occupant protection, child occupant protection and driver-assistance features (90 per cent, 86 per cent and 87 per cent respectively), while its pedestrian protection rating was a little lower (63 per cent).

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There's plenty of safety kit fitted as standard to ensure you don't come to grief in the first place, such as forward-collision avoidance, hill-start assistance, an intelligent speed limiter, lane-following assistance and lane-keeping assistance.

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Hello, I’m Shane and I’m the senior content editor both here at DrivingElectric and at our sister title Auto Express. Although I can trace my professional roots back to the radio and podcasting world, my passion (or borderline obsession) with cars saw me switch over to motoring journalism in 2021. From the very start I have been fortunate enough to try out the latest and greatest electric cars on the market, and I’m proud to help people like you make the right EV buying decisions.

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