Consumer Reports shares insights about electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) from its latest reliability survey, including the most reliable electric car.
Newsflash: new models are full of bugs to work out.
As a ex multiple dealer and independent mechanic, I would never EVER buy a first year car. With an inexperienced maker building EV’s, make that skipping the first 2 years. Let the early adopters deal with the teething issues and be patient. Year 3 is where the problems are solved and the car gets good.
The first year reveals the major faults that took time to appear. The second year has them engineering and verifying newer better systems, especially the less important faults and annoyances that got ignored with the initial round of fire fighting. Year 3 gets everything sorted.
I wouldn’t buy a year 1 car or truck of any type. Ford has continually screwed up their releases. Specifically the F150 and Explorer. This isn’t an EV issue it’s just a manufacturing issue that some companies have.
I got lucky, got one from the first quarter production and have had pretty much no issues (needed some earlier than preferred bushings replaced but had that done during regular visits so no special visits). But the software is buggy (not unusable) and as far as I have heard that is still the case for the newest ones off the line, 2 years later, as well.
Newsflash: new models are full of bugs to work out.
As a ex multiple dealer and independent mechanic, I would never EVER buy a first year car. With an inexperienced maker building EV’s, make that skipping the first 2 years. Let the early adopters deal with the teething issues and be patient. Year 3 is where the problems are solved and the car gets good.
The first year reveals the major faults that took time to appear. The second year has them engineering and verifying newer better systems, especially the less important faults and annoyances that got ignored with the initial round of fire fighting. Year 3 gets everything sorted.
I’ve bought 2 first year EVs and they both had issues with very long lead time for parts. Wouldn’t buy another year one car in the future.
I wouldn’t buy a year 1 car or truck of any type. Ford has continually screwed up their releases. Specifically the F150 and Explorer. This isn’t an EV issue it’s just a manufacturing issue that some companies have.
I got lucky, got one from the first quarter production and have had pretty much no issues (needed some earlier than preferred bushings replaced but had that done during regular visits so no special visits). But the software is buggy (not unusable) and as far as I have heard that is still the case for the newest ones off the line, 2 years later, as well.