Recall · 24V358000
Kia America recalled the KIA Niro EV over electrical system
2,209
Vehicles covered
1
Model
1
Model years
May 21, 2024
Filed with NHTSA
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:PROPULSION SYSTEM:SHOCK PROTECTION
- The defect
- Kia America, Inc. (Kia) is recalling certain 2022 Niro EV vehicles. The high voltage battery safety plug may overheat and melt, which can cause a loss of drive power or fire.
- What it can cause
- A loss of drive power increases the risk of a crash, and a fire increases the risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- Owners are advised not to charge their vehicle in a garage or any other covered structure until the recall repair is completed. Dealers will replace the safety plug, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed July 19, 2024. Kia's number for this recall is SC314.
- NHTSA's note
- Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.nhtsa.gov.
The repair is free, whatever the age or mileage of the vehicle, and whether or not you are the original owner.
Which vehicles
A recall reaches a range of VINs inside these model years, not every car built in them. Yours may not be covered even if it is listed here, and the only way to find out is NHTSA's own VIN lookup .
| Vehicle | Model years | Safety record |
|---|---|---|
| KiaNiro EV | 2022 | 2022 |
How this campaign compares
At 2,209 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 67% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers one model year, 2022, so the oldest vehicles on it were 2 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Kia vehicles have been recalled over the electrical system 21 times before this, most recently in April 2024 as 24V287000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 1 model year the campaign names. Their owners have filed 30 complaints with NHTSA, 19 of them before this campaign was filed. 12 of those name the electrical system, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in September 2021, 2 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry one other recall published here: 25V426000 (back over prevention).
Check your own car
A VIN check is the only answer for a specific vehicle, and it also shows every other open recall on it, which is usually the reason it is worth doing rather than reading one campaign.
Filed by Kia America, Inc. with NHTSA on May 21, 2024 as campaign 24V358000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
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