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2025 Hyundai IONIQ 5 vehicle speed control problems

16 owner complaints filed with NHTSA name the vehicle speed control on the 2025 Hyundai IONIQ 55% of all complaints for this model year.

16
Vehicle Speed Control complaints
5%
share of all complaints
median reported incident mileage
0 / 0
crash / fire reports

What owners report

  • Driving home near my apartment, I had to join a busy highway from a full stop. I found a small gap and tried to accelerate to quickly merge into traffic, when my car made a high pitched alert noise and noticably did not accelerate beyond about 25 miles per hour on a 45-50mph highway with heavy…

    filed Sep 4, 2026

  • While driving this EV with cruise control on, the dashboard suddenly showed a message that “Smart Cruise Control conditions not met”. Attempting to re-engage the cruise control did not work and then the vehicle suddenly lost all propulsion (pressing the accelerator did nothing). The car quickly…

    filed Sep 2, 2026

Verbatim excerpts from complaints filed with NHTSA. Reports are not independently verified.

Vehicle Speed Control problems in other IONIQ 5 years

YearReportsShare
2026 IONIQ 529%
2024 IONIQ 573%
2023 IONIQ 5174%
2022 IONIQ 5266%
IONIQ 5 vehicle speed control problems by year →

Counts are unique NHTSA complaints naming this component group. Complaints are unverified owner reports; mileage is computed only from complaints that included a usable odometer reading.