The electrification in the automotive sector continues at full speed. As of 2022, automobile companies started to say goodbye to internal combustion engines and switch to electric motors. In fact, there have been important studies on the subject in our country recently. What about the reliability of electric cars equipped with new technologies? The latest report from Consumer Reports Magazine revealed a fact about these vehicles.
Consumer Reports: Electric cars have low reliability
It is possible to say that electric vehicles, which host new technologies and can drive themselves without the need for a driver, are the future of the automotive industry. However, it is not at an accessible level for now, especially due to its prices. Because even the prices of internal combustion vehicles, which we have been saying goodbye to due to many reasons such as the global chip crisis, the pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war, have increased exponentially.
According to the latest report by Consumer Reports, electric vehicles are among the least reliable cars and pickup trucks in the automotive industry. Compared to hybrid and gas-powered cars and pickup trucks, fully battery-powered electric vehicles were the worst performing segment outside of traditional full-size pickup trucks.
For this report, Consumer Reports collected data on more than 300,000 vehicles from 2000 to 2022, along with several newly introduced 2023 models. Apart from that, electric and hybrid models are among the most desired and demanded models in the report, but it is possible to say that the reliability ratings are the opposite of each other.
Consumer Reports’ senior director of automobile testing, Jake Fisher, attributed the related reliability problems in electric vehicles to the fact that companies operating in this field do not have enough time. Because, according to Fisher, manufacturers such as Tesla use these vehicles as a test environment for new technologies and cannot spare the time to focus on the potential problems that affect the reliability they may cause.
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