2022 Kia Niro Ev: Reliability Data

Source: NHTSA — 43 complaints
43
Total Complaints
UNKNOWN OR OTHER
Top Issue
5
Crash Reports

What Fails?

Most reported component issues from NHTSA complaints.

UNKNOWN OR OTHER
13
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
9
POWER TRAIN
5
ENGINE
3
FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL
2
VISIBILITY/WIPER
2
VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
2
SEAT BELTS
1
SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC
1
LANE DEPARTURE: BLIND SPOT DETECTION
1

Severity Assessment

5
Crashes
0
Fires
1
Injuries
0
Deaths

Sample Complaint Reports

"This complaint is about a vehicle design and implementation issue rather than a malfunction. The implementation of the low speed warning alert for this vehicle is dangerous to pedestrians. Several times, as I was backing out of a parking spot pedestrians have stopped directly behind the moving vehi..."
"When the KIA is shifted into "park", it will sometimes roll forward or backwards until the brakes are applied by the driver. This doesn't happen all the time and we have not figured out a way to predictably reproduce the results, but it happens a lot. My wife is the primary driver and I have only ..."
"After putting the car in park on a moderate slope, I exited the car and about 2 seconds later, as I was connecting the charger, the car rolled backward 4 feet before coming to a stop. I immediately confirmed that the car was in park. The parking brake was *not* on. (Or at least, I did not manually..."

Source: NHTSA ODI Complaints Database. Names and identifying details omitted.

Data source: View this vehicle on NHTSA.gov | NHTSA ODI Complaints Database. Public domain.

Methodology: Complaint counts and mileage distributions are computed directly from consumer-reported NHTSA complaints. This data represents reported issues, not failure rates — vehicles without complaints are not represented. Full methodology.

Data through: 2026-03-28