A small variety of 2023-2024 Kia Niro EV and 2023 Kia EV6 electrical autos are being recalled for a difficulty that almost all positively can’t be remedied with an over-the-air replace.
In affected autos, Kia explains, one of many driveshafts might have been improperly heat-treated, probably permitting it to interrupt below load. That will outcome within the sudden lack of drive energy.
Kia has narrowed down the variety of probably affected U.S. autos to 1,243, together with sure 2023-2024 Kia Niro EV fashions made out of June 27 by July 13, 2023, and 2023 Kia EV6 fashions made out of January 26 by April 8, 2023. It could have an effect on the left drive shaft within the Niro EV or the rear interior drive shaft within the EV6.
It signifies that simply 1% of autos are suspected to have the defect. That quantities to about 12 U.S.-market autos that truly want the repair—though Kia says that it’s going to proactively change drive shafts in your entire lot of autos. Since these are world merchandise, recall efforts will lengthen to different markets, probably with considerably totally different superb particulars.
2022 Kia EV6
The corporate recognized the problem final month, and associated it to a number of breakage incidents with the EV6, though the half is similar within the Niro EV. It says that there have been no crashes, accidents, or fatalities associated to the problem.
Kia notified sellers on February 5, whereas it would notify homeowners by March 29, 2024. Homeowners are suggested to name Kia customer support at 800-333-4542 to see if their car is affected, or to