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.
Anecdotally speaking, having my 12V battery fail twice without warning which locks you out of your car and leaves you stranded. I think its an accurate statement. I only had an ICE car break down once on me in 20+ years and that was a bad alternator on a 10 year old car.
Dude. I just want to say if you’re telling the truth about one breakdown in 20+ years that is mind boggling. In my 13 years of driving I have broken down in ICE vehicles countless times! Overheating, multiple dead alternators (twice in my truck, once in my wife’s car), snapped serpentine belt, exploded clutch. I’m sure I can think of more, I just find it hard to believe it’s once in 20+ years unless you’ve lived a very nice life with nothing but new cars.
Stop buying fords and buy Toyotas or other Japanese cars except Nissans. But even the Nissans can still drive in limp mode when the transmission fails. Only a few issues will disable a car. I’ve been a car that had the turbo stopped spooljng on a trip to Vegas but it just cut bunch of the power but was still drivable.
Anecdotally speaking, having my 12V battery fail twice without warning which locks you out of your car and leaves you stranded. I think its an accurate statement. I only had an ICE car break down once on me in 20+ years and that was a bad alternator on a 10 year old car.
It’s a common problem with automakers making their first EVs.
I’ve had 12V batteries fail on ICE cars several times.
That doesn’t lock you out. You can still use a physical key to open the car…unless the car design is so poor that it can only be wirelessly unlocked.
Dude. I just want to say if you’re telling the truth about one breakdown in 20+ years that is mind boggling. In my 13 years of driving I have broken down in ICE vehicles countless times! Overheating, multiple dead alternators (twice in my truck, once in my wife’s car), snapped serpentine belt, exploded clutch. I’m sure I can think of more, I just find it hard to believe it’s once in 20+ years unless you’ve lived a very nice life with nothing but new cars.
Stop buying fords and buy Toyotas or other Japanese cars except Nissans. But even the Nissans can still drive in limp mode when the transmission fails. Only a few issues will disable a car. I’ve been a car that had the turbo stopped spooljng on a trip to Vegas but it just cut bunch of the power but was still drivable.