{"id":10983,"date":"2024-04-22T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=10983"},"modified":"2024-03-23T16:05:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T23:05:27","slug":"evs-have-79-more-reliability-problems-than-traditional-internal-combustion-engine-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=10983","title":{"rendered":"EVs have 79% more reliability problems than traditional internal combustion engine cars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s not been a rosy year for electric vehicles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

EV sales in 2024 are only 9% of vehicles sold – and seem to have reached a plateau. Automobile manufacturers such as Ford’s popular F-150 Lightning<\/a>, GM, and Renault are quietly cutting production back. Even Volvo that pledged to be 100% electric by 2030 just pulled the plug on it’s efforts with Polestar<\/a>. It certainly doesn’t help that average EV’s cost several thousand dollars more than gas and diesel powered vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only 2 years after pledges to convert 25% of its fleet to electric vehicles by 2024, Hertz decided to sell 1\/3 of it’s EV fleet (about 20,000 cars) in January 2024<\/a> and replace them with gas-powered vehicles – citing higher expenses related to collision and damages. By March 2024, and embattled Hertz CEO Stephen Scherr ultimately resigned over the fiasco<\/a> as Hertz now focuses on a return to profitability<\/a>. They’re not the only rental company quietly replacing EV’s with traditional vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other shortcoming are starting to come out. Batteries are physical devices – devices that don’t work well in high temps of the Southwest nor in the cold winter temps of the upper states<\/a>. There’s also range-anxiety, higher tire consumption and higher road wear due to the heavy weight of EV’s, higher repair costs, rising electricity prices, and now a new issue: reliability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now we have a few years of reliability data – and Consumer Reports says it’s not that good. The data says that EV’s have lower reliability ratings than standard gas\/diesel powered vehicles. The worst reliability is for full plug-in hybrids that have 146% more issues on average.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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EVs had 79 percent more reliability problems than a gasoline- or diesel-powered vehicle, on average. Plug-in hybrids fared even worse; these had 146 percent more issues on average than the conventional alternative. But simpler not-plug-in hybrids bucked this trend, with 26 percent fewer reliability problems than conventionally powered vehicles.<\/p>\nConsumer Reports via Ars Technica<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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It’s not just Consumer Reports. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s not been a rosy year for electric vehicles. EV sales in 2024 are only 9% of vehicles sold – and seem to have reached a plateau. Automobile manufacturers such as Ford’s popular F-150 Lightning, GM, and Renault are quietly cutting production back. Even Volvo that pledged to be 100% electric by 2030 just pulled the plug on it’s efforts with Polestar. It certainly doesn’t help that average EV’s cost several thousand dollars more than gas and diesel powered vehicles….<\/p>\n

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