“The problems with internal combustion engines are mostly sorted,” Jake Fisher, Consumer Reports senior director of testing, told me. “The new problems are mostly associated with electronics: Electric vehicles that use brand new platforms and power trains.”
EVs in model years 2021-24 suffered about twice as many reliability problems as internal combustion engines, or ICE, according to CR’s survey of about 70,000 vehicles.
Hybrids were the big winners, with an average 26% fewer problems. Faring worst were plug-in hybrid vehicles, an extremely promising technology that features a bigger battery than a regular hybrid, so the vehicle can go farther on electricity in daily driving, but also has a gasoline engine for long trips. PHEVs had 146% as many issues as ICE vehicles.
The first ICE engines were shit and only had like 2 hp. 150 years later mercedes finally broke the 50% efficiency with their Formula 1 engine. New tech is always awkward as they figure out how to do things. I’m sure they’ll learn from previous experience and evolve quickly. I’m excited for crazy performance electric motors and batteries with long range where you stop for breaks because you want to and not because you’re out of power.
If we are to give a bit of credibility to all the news on advances in EVs, that horizon is closer than farther.
Engineering is not as much a trial and error endeavor as it once was. Computer models and simulators do wonders to sort out many of the fails and the real world fails are the expected unexpecteds that always come about.
Why is there never a link to the source in shit articles
Amd even the source doesn’t seem to present the raw data and instead just talks about their interpretation of it. https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-reliability-owner-satisfaction/electric-vehicles-are-less-reliable-than-conventional-cars-a1047214174/
GIVE ME THE FUCKING DATA
The Detroit automakers are pissed they can’t sell $60k-$120k EVs to us, so they decided to shit on the whole idea. They’re leaving the whole market to that X asshole.
