Consumer Reports shares insights about electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) from its latest reliability survey, including the most reliable electric car.
They definitely have ZERO financial ties to legacy auto and have ZERO incentive to push ICE cars.
Regardless of that, if you lump in all EVs together this is certainly true, but if you isolate Tesla, it’s more reliable than at least 50% of ICE brands.
Electric cars like the 2020 Tesla Model 3 experienced only 4.9 mechanical breakdowns per 1,000 vehicles on the road, while gas-powered cars from the same model year had a failure rate of 6.9 such incidents
Let’s also compare the # of recalls (excluding over the air updates, which are not recalls). Significantly higher probability you have to take your car in if you get a Ford/Toyota/Honda instead of a Tesla.
They definitely have ZERO financial ties to legacy auto and have ZERO incentive to push ICE cars.
Regardless of that, if you lump in all EVs together this is certainly true, but if you isolate Tesla, it’s more reliable than at least 50% of ICE brands.
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Let’s also compare the # of recalls (excluding over the air updates, which are not recalls). Significantly higher probability you have to take your car in if you get a Ford/Toyota/Honda instead of a Tesla.