It's mind-boggling how hard the Japanese find it to make a car that is both distinctive and good-looking.
Refuelling an EV is at best painful. A Rivian weighs 7000 pounds and about 4000 is battery. It takes days to refuel at home.
EV’s are expensive Crapmobiles for morons on a financial and environmental basis. Total waste of money and our taxes subsidize it in every aspect. If not the purchase price, Tax dollars support the everything. No road taxes, those refuel stations are built with tax money and they do twice as much damage to roads because of their weight.
“It must kill Consumer Reports, to report the truth about EV’s.”
But it’s nice to see them being truthful.
To me, equal in importance to reliability is the ability of dealers and shops to make the repairs and get parts.
Perhaps cost is of slightly less importance to me because my EV would be new and on warranty for several years.
JD Powers 2023 data doesn’t exactly jive with CR. Probably the differences are what data they are looking for. JD Powers collects data which charts problems per 100 cars.
I saw a graph this morning about quality by car type. Not to surprising EV’s were horrible, and Plug in hybrids were worst. Regular non plug in hybrids like what Toyota uses in the Prius, Rav4 and Camry were excellent as were ICE cars
It's a lot different than the period from 1900 to 1940 when the industry was brand new and there was little mass manufacturing base experience to draw upon. The speed of resolution of problems and technical advances in that period was incredible. And all without computers, CAD, CAM, 3D printed parts, ERP systems, and electronic communications, too.
How many decades will it take them to fix all the EV problems? Why isn't the experience of 120 years of auto manufacturing resolving all these problems quickly?
How will they fix the repair problem when a small crash damages your battery plant and makes it fire-prone?
How will they fix the problem of a small crash causing your insurance company to declare your car totaled?
How will they resolve the sky-high insurance premium problem? We all know the answer to that last one: the government will mandate that insurance rates for EVs must be the same as for ICE cars. Or the government will socialize that insurance premium problem and make all of us pay for it. Who cares about moral hazard? So even if you never buy an EV, you will be paying subsidies for their purchase, insurance premiums and recycling.
The last 2 days, FOX news has been reporting that EVs are piling up on dealer lots. People are not buying them. People are smarter than the government gives them credit for.
I hear the EV bikes are nice, except people are up in arms about using them on the local bike paths :)
Shitcanned that liberal rag decades ago after they hyped Øbowelcare.
Still remember how they tried to boost 4 and 6 cylinder cars by belittling anyone that wanted a v-8.
“And while EVs are growing in popularity,...”
Am I missing something?
“It must kill Consumer Reports, to report the truth about EV’s.z’
my first thought as well ... you know, given that CR is ultra-hard-leftist ...
Any listing that puts Minis high on reliability ratings is not something I can take seriously. Those things are notoriously bad.
And Subarus... good cars in a lot of ways but head gasket failures are a matter of when, not if.
It's mind-boggling how hard the Japanese find it to make a car that is both distinctive and good-looking.
I used to trust CR..regarding cars...reports seem to be written by Karen’s.
Funniest criticism I remember was that they commented that a Chevy truck had a shortcoming in that it rode like a truck.
Would have never brought my 331,000, and counting, mile Chevy Cobalt if I had listened to them.