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Electric Vehicles Have 79% More Reliability Challenges Than Gas Powered Cars
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this post was submitted on 03 Dec 2023
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There's a lot of problems with this. Just some include that it's a blog and doesn't link to the actual study so it's impossible to see what's going on with the this report. They also never explain what this "reliability score" even means or what's included in that. Then they start doing things like using a percent to compare the scores saying this is percent more reliable. But we still don't even know what this score is, and comparing as a percent may not make any sense to say depending on what the scores are and how they're calculated. Unfortunately you can't really draw any conclusions from what's in this article.
The underlying CR report is more detailed but it’s still a dumb study because it’s reported problems from the consumer, not actual problems. E.g. eco mode on the Ioniq 5 is a “problem” even though it worked as designed. Also they proceed to recommend Tesla even though Tesla has the worst reliability rating in the industry according to numerous other studies. Overall terrible study.
Combining EV and plugin hybrids together is quite strong indicator that this study has agenda attached.
Plugin hybrids were the most unreliable. Tech wise all hybrids are more closer to gas powered than EV's. Of course plugin hybrids are more unreliable, you have two engines, so you get issues from both.
Except they didn’t? Plug ins, EVs regular hybrids, and ICEs were all different categoriesc at least in the actual press release on the study.
While i do have issues with the studys breakdown c I don’t think paint chips and mismatched paint should be classed under reliability issues, but the they were upfront about all of it.
Had the same response. The headline itself reeks of spin.