Electric vehicles have almost 80% more problems than ICE ones, Consumer Reports

Re:Electric vehicles have almost 80% more problems than ICE ... by mtbkrdave on Sunday December 03, 2023 @09:40PM (#38513136)

CR has a long history of bias against anything electric in their reporting and headlines.

They state they drew these conclusions based on 330K survey responses. Over 13M vehicles are sold in the US alone each year. For 2.5% to be a representative sample requires extremely careful control over many confounding factors.

If their 330K survey responses follow the same distribution as new vehicle sales, only about 23K of them were BEVs. That doesn't seem like a representative sample of the roughly 1M BEVs sold each year.

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Re:Electric vehicles have almost 80% more problems than ICE ... by LorenDB on Sunday December 03, 2023 @10:22PM (#38513380)

Apparently you don't remember when the Tesla Model S scored 103 out of 100 possible points on Consumer Reports' test: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2015/09/teslas-model-s-breaks-c...

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Re:Electric vehicles have almost 80% more problems than ICE ... by gregjor on Sunday December 03, 2023 @10:37PM (#38513462)

It's only bias when it doesn't fit your narrative.

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