The annual car reliability survey by Consumer Reports found EVs are 79 percent more likely to have problems than conventional cars. Consumers reported electric drive motors, charging and EV batteries had the most common issues associated with EVs, according to the survey.
Jake Fisher, senior director of auto testing at Consumer Reports, noted that there may be “growing pains” among EVs because they are based on new technology or are being manufactured by new upstart companies, such as Rivian. He said companies “need some time to work out the bugs,” according to the magazine.
Plug-in hybrids are more likely to have more issues than gas-powered cars, EVs and hybrid vehicles. The survey said that plug-in hybrids have 146 percent more problems than gas-powered cars.
Sounds good then
Assuming it’s actually issue switch the car and not operator error (something I see depressingly frequently are people at other fast chargers on a call with support claiming there’s an issue when they just can’t read instructions)
In their defense, I can see why some people get confused about how to use some chargers. The instructions on some of them aren’t clear and a lot of apps are poorly designed. In addition, the now-legacy CCS1 connector is very annoying to get going on some vehicles – sometimes you’d have to nudge it up and down hoping that it’d make contact.
This is one area that Tesla nailed correctly by doing plug-and-charge out the gate and generally making you set up a credit card in the app before you even get the car (or the delivery guy will walk you through it as they drop it off)