2025 Hyundai Kona Electric

Routine

Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the electrical system. It has been recalled 1 time.

What fails

Component	Reports		Crashes	Fires	Injuries
Electrical System	1		0	0	0

1 safety recall

Part 573 reports

Seat Belts › Rear/Other › Buckle Assembly26V452000

Filed Jul 14, 202647,787 vehiclesHyundai Motor America

Defect. Hyundai Motor America (Hyundai) is recalling certain 2024-2025 Kona Electric and 2024-2026 Kona vehicles. The seat belt buckle in the rear center seat may fail to properly restrain an occupant during a crash.

Risk. A seat belt buckle that fails to properly restrain an occupant in a crash increases the risk of injury.

Remedy. Passengers are advised not to use the rear center seat until the recall remedy is performed. Dealers will replace the seat belt buckle assembly, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed September 2, 2026. Owners may contact Hyundai customer service at 1-855-371-9460. Hyundai's number for this recall is 306. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on July 15, 2026.

What owners reported

Newest filings

Electrical System

Filed Aug 1, 2025GA

I was driving at 930pm in the dark at a speed of 30 mph and the car completely shut off all power. No warning signs. Just completely lost power. No headlights or interior lights. I was able to brake and stop the car and restarted it to continue on. Lu ckily I was on neighborhood roads with street lights and little traffic. This could have been extremely dangerous on a road with no lighting and a high speed. I am now scared to let my new teen driver use this car and we bought the car for her! The car was at 47 percent battery and only has 5000 miles on it. Seems in my current research this is somewhat common for Hyundai. Please make them fix this before someone is seriously injured!

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2019

Year	Complaints	Recalls	Fires	Assessment
2025 — this page	1	1	0	Routine
2024	15	1	0	Routine
2023	5	0	0	Routine
2022	20	0	0	Routine
2021	26	2	1	Routine
2020	27	3	0	Routine
2019	54	3	2	Routine

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Reading this record

No unusual pattern of severe incidents in the complaint record.

Complaint counts track how many cars were sold and how long they have been on the road as much as they track quality. A common model from 2013 has had a decade to accumulate reports; a rare one from last year has not. The signal worth weighing is in the severity columns, in whether the same component keeps appearing, and in whether the manufacturer eventually opened a recall for it.

Recall repairs are free for as long as the recall stands. Check whether a specific car still has open work at NHTSA's VIN lookup.

Most recent recall on file: Jul 14, 2026. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.