2025 HYUNDAI KONA — Complaint #2167074
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NHTSA Complaint about ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:12V/24V/48V BATTERY filed January 16, 2026
NHTSA complaint #2167074 (ODI reference 11711457) concerns a 2025 HYUNDAI KONA and was filed on January 16, 2026. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 1, 2026. The vehicle had 12,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to New York based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as electrical system:12v/24v/48v battery, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same HYUNDAI KONA cohort independently describe similar electrical system:12v/24v/48v battery failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2025 HYUNDAI KONA shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2025 Hyundai Kona. The contact stated that while upon starting the vehicle, the vehicle failed to respond as intended, and the vehicle needed to be jump-started. The vehicle was taken to a dealer to be diagnosed; however, the diagnostic result was unknown. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure had occurred on several occasions. The manufacturer was notified of the failure and informed the contact that the vehicle did not fall under the Lemon Law. The failure mileage was 12,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2167074 |
| ODI Number | 11711457 |
| Date Filed | January 16, 2026 |
| Failure Date | January 1, 2026 |
| VIN | KM8HACA35SU |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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