Model years Hyundai Santa Fe Hybrid

2022 Hyundai Santa Fe Hybrid

Complaints about this year name about far more often than the model's other years — 30% of them, about 74× the usual rate of 0.4%.

NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.

Complaints filed61
Median for this model6
Involving a crash4
Recalls4
NHTSA crash rating5/5
EPA combined33 mpg

Also unusual this year

What owners wrote

On October 28, 2024 and again on November 26, 2024, a warning light appeared on the dash which said “ check hybrid system stop safely” Within 20 seconds both times , the car became inoperable . When I stepped on the gas nothing happened . The first time I was…
This car is equipped with a panoramic roof that opens both all the way and tilts for ventilation. While driving 70 MPH (posted speed limit) on I-95 in North Carolina in March, we had the roof tilted open. The sky was sunny, and the temperature was about 70 deg…

Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.

Recalls for this year

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How this was worked out

Every year of the Hyundai Santa Fe Hybrid was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.

This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.

Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.

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