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
| Euro NCAP | Adult protection | Child protection | Safety 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).
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.
