Not mentioned in the article (but present in the original source) is that non-plugin hybrids have 26% fewer problems than ICE cars - I wonder why this is.
Squeaky brakes? Is that a real problem?
Bolt not listed even though it is one of the best selling electric cars, and the Bolt seems to have a paywalled reliability score on their site. Not sure what to make of this report. Is it mostly tesla that has poor reliability?
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Electric vehicles have nearly 80% more problems and are generally less reliable than cars propelled by conventional internal combustion engines, according to a new report from Consumer Reports.
CR has a long history of bias against anything electric in their reporting and headlines.
They state they drew these conclusions based on 330K survey responses. Over 13M vehicles are sold in the US alone each year. For 2.5% to be a representative sample requires extremely careful control over many confounding factors.
If their 330K survey responses follow the same distribution as new vehicle sales, only about 23K of them were BEVs. That doesn't seem like a representative sample of the roughly 1M BEVs sold each year.
Just link the original article[0], the cbsnews article has like zero depth. But even the consumer reports article lacks a lot of depth - I'm sure they want me to subscribe.
Anyway, I was hoping to see what specifically was the problems other than generic "charging problems". Like which make+model and what kind of "charging problem" was it. Simple like the app failed or really complex like the charger unit needed to be replaced.
Teslas are notorious for cabin problems/cheapness, but their drive train has way less complaints. So I'd like to see how they fair.
[0] https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-reliability-owner-s...