2023-12-31 12:19:01
Consumer Report says electric vehicles have more problems than combustion engine cars. Over time, they believe electric vehicles will improve substantially.
In what areas do electric vehicles now have the most problems and make them less reliable?
A reader gives us his personal opinion following purchasing a Tesla
I followed up on this question when it came out to see why Consumer Reports would say something so stupid. I’m 70 years old and I bought a Tesla because I’m sick of fixing cars. In my life I have had between 40 and 50 cars and I always, always carried tools and parts for them, even for a new car. I don’t do that with the Tesla.
What I carry as emergency equipment is a tow rope and I use it to pull other cars out of the snow. That’s happened regarding four times over the course of two winters, and yesterday there was an ambulance stuck in our neighborhood.
In recent days there has been another highly publicized “recall” of Teslas. Like everyone else, this doesn’t mean the car needs to be returned to the dealer, repaired, or anything else that requires effort or costs a dime.
It means the car will update automatically without any effort on my part, and by the way, the problem is so minor that I would never have noticed it anyway. Kind of like using autopilot without looking where you’re going. Well.
That ridiculous “panel gap” thing is to me a transparent attempt to find something wrong with cars. The very definition of annoying. I looked for deviations in my car’s panel gap and read regarding them.
They are not actually something you can see, but you have to measure them with special tools or feel them by running your fingers along each seam of the car. Oh really. How can this be considered a problem?
When we bought the car, I felt compelled to check a few things, as I had with previous cars: oil level, coolant, brake fluid, belts and hoses, tire pressure, fuel.
There is nothing to check; I can’t even put gas in it; and tire pressure is something you check on the service screen inside the car – two clicks and it shows the pressure of all the tires without even leaving.
It “starts” in cold weather, although that’s not really true: you don’t need to turn it on, you just click forward or reverse and drive.
I live in Alaska, regarding 100 miles from the Arctic Circle, so that’s a big difference from most cars, which need to be preheated, warmed up, and defrosted every time they’re used if the weather is below -20°F. .
The Tesla does all of those things on its own: just give it a call and it will warm up and be ready to go in regarding 15 minutes.
If I die before my wife, I’m not worried regarding her being able to take care of the car.
Sorry for the rant. I like my Tesla and Consumer Reports is simply wrong.
Edited to add:
You should keep your mouth shut on this one. I’m sorry for the stupid comment. However, I think Teslas should not be included in the same reliability categories as other electric vehicles.
This is especially true in terms of charging. Tesla chargers are just regarding adequate in most places and are better and easier to use than others. Non-Tesla vehicles are at a serious disadvantage in terms of charging.
That will change in the next year as other vehicles adopt the NACS standard, but not until they actually install NACS connectors in all of their vehicles.
The vehicles themselves, I don’t know if they are not Tesla. As others have noted in the comments, my experience with ICE vehicles has been with older cars, mostly from the last millennium.
I look forward to the time when there is a proper followingmarket for spare parts and repairs. We are not even close to having a decent opportunity to repair and rebuild electric vehicles, including Tesla.
Fuente: Quora, Phil Koontz
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