it’s an electric car, there’s like 3 moving parts. they’ve been building electric cars for 15 years, they know how to do it better than anyone else currently
Tesla has always had quality issues, not reliability issues — in an electric car, the reliability portion is fairly easy to get right. Nothing is really that susceptible to just failing bc complexity and part volume is so low.
This is purely anecdotal, but there are a lot of forum posts about serious failures and legitimate problems happening to Teslas, not just quality. But, there are also a shitton of Teslas out there, and lots of new cars seem to be full of gremlins, so it’s really hard to say - according to this survey they stack up pretty well.
CR’s “reliability” ratings are more like “initial quality” since they really only look at problem areas in the first few years and not really long-term reliability of vehicles over time.
They do rate older cars reliability but Im pretty sure the automaker ratings are based on only the last few model years, which means vehicles that are only a couple years old.
Now that growth has slowed, I’ve seen a lot fewer posts about issues at delivery.
Previously, cars would be delivered to the store and delivered within 48 hours. Now their teams have longer to address las minute issues, which made up a large % of quality concerns.
Hard to believe Tesla beat all American made cars except Buick
And it’s still middle of the pack overall
Tesla isn’t “American” in the same way the big 3 are. Middle America absolutely doesn’t seem them in the same way as Ford or Chevy
it’s an electric car, there’s like 3 moving parts. they’ve been building electric cars for 15 years, they know how to do it better than anyone else currently
Tesla has always had quality issues, not reliability issues — in an electric car, the reliability portion is fairly easy to get right. Nothing is really that susceptible to just failing bc complexity and part volume is so low.
Literally the next top post on this sub is “EVs are less reliable than ICE vehicles”
This is purely anecdotal, but there are a lot of forum posts about serious failures and legitimate problems happening to Teslas, not just quality. But, there are also a shitton of Teslas out there, and lots of new cars seem to be full of gremlins, so it’s really hard to say - according to this survey they stack up pretty well.
Just look at this: https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/forums/service-maintenance.366/
CR’s “reliability” ratings are more like “initial quality” since they really only look at problem areas in the first few years and not really long-term reliability of vehicles over time.
That’s JD Power. CR collects data from their subscribers and weighs the results based on the magnitude of problems.
It doesn’t stop after 3 years.
They do rate older cars reliability but Im pretty sure the automaker ratings are based on only the last few model years, which means vehicles that are only a couple years old.
You mean “American-owned” brands? There are lots of cars made in America/Canada not from “American” brands.
Now that growth has slowed, I’ve seen a lot fewer posts about issues at delivery.
Previously, cars would be delivered to the store and delivered within 48 hours. Now their teams have longer to address las minute issues, which made up a large % of quality concerns.