Tesla has always had quality issues, not reliability issues — in an electric car, the reliability portion is fairly easy to get right. Nothing is really that susceptible to just failing bc complexity and part volume is so low.
CR’s “reliability” ratings are more like “initial quality” since they really only look at problem areas in the first few years and not really long-term reliability of vehicles over time.
They do rate older cars reliability but Im pretty sure the automaker ratings are based on only the last few model years, which means vehicles that are only a couple years old.
This is purely anecdotal, but there are a lot of forum posts about serious failures and legitimate problems happening to Teslas, not just quality. But, there are also a shitton of Teslas out there, and lots of new cars seem to be full of gremlins, so it’s really hard to say - according to this survey they stack up pretty well.
Tesla has always had quality issues, not reliability issues — in an electric car, the reliability portion is fairly easy to get right. Nothing is really that susceptible to just failing bc complexity and part volume is so low.
CR’s “reliability” ratings are more like “initial quality” since they really only look at problem areas in the first few years and not really long-term reliability of vehicles over time.
That’s JD Power. CR collects data from their subscribers and weighs the results based on the magnitude of problems.
It doesn’t stop after 3 years.
They do rate older cars reliability but Im pretty sure the automaker ratings are based on only the last few model years, which means vehicles that are only a couple years old.
This is purely anecdotal, but there are a lot of forum posts about serious failures and legitimate problems happening to Teslas, not just quality. But, there are also a shitton of Teslas out there, and lots of new cars seem to be full of gremlins, so it’s really hard to say - according to this survey they stack up pretty well.
Just look at this: https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/forums/service-maintenance.366/
Literally the next top post on this sub is “EVs are less reliable than ICE vehicles”