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Re:Tesla ranks almost dead-last on Consumer Reports reliabil... by tzs on Friday November 19, 2021 @07:08AM (#29276389)
> On topic though, if they are so unreliable, why are do they have such high consumer satisfaction ratings?

Maybe for a lot of people reliability isn't a major concern?

People who get a new car every few years even if the old one runs fine just need their car to last until then.

People like me who stick with a car much longer [1] put reliability much higher on our requirements.

[1] I'm driving a 2006 Honda CR-V that I bought new and hope to keep driving for another 15+ years, albeit at some point I plan to get an EV for my around town daily driving keeping the CR-V for when I need more cargo or longer distance. Just waiting on that for an EV that I can keep for 20+ years without it costing a fortune over that time in battery repair/replacement. I really want the next car I buy to be the last car I buy.

Re:Tesla ranks almost dead-last on Consumer Reports reliabil... by DeathArrow on Friday November 19, 2021 @07:34AM (#29276510)
>Just waiting on that for an EV that I can keep for 20+ years without it costing a fortune over that time in battery repair/replacement.

You will live a long life for sure. :)

Re:Tesla ranks almost dead-last on Consumer Reports reliabil... by tzs on Friday November 19, 2021 @07:51AM (#29276623)
Yeah...I may compromise and make that last car a PHEV. My normal daily driving is under the all electric range of most PHEVs, and since they have smaller batteries than full EVs battery repair/replacement should be cheaper.

The plan would then be a PHEV sedan mostly used just on battery, the CR-V for when I need more cargo capacity, and either the CR-V or PHEV for those rare longer trips depending on how much stuff I need to carry.

A plus for that approach is that since the PHEV would not be used much in ICE mode I hopefully would get a very long lifetime out of the ICE side of it. If I go for a PHEV SUV instead of a PHEV sedan, then I'm even covered if the CR-V dies before me.

I have hope though that as EVs become more common battery repair/replacement will come down. In particular I'm hoping multiple manufacturers standardize on using the same cells in their batteries and make the individual cells replaceable so that battery repair becomes a standard thing you can have done at a typical independent car repair shop, rather than something you have to go to the dealer for and has to be done with parts from the car manufacturer.