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in the currently evaluated year 2023 the battery accounts for 44.1 percent of breakdowns
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3-10 year old combustion cars vs electric cars only having enough registered models to start observing their reliability in 2021
they explicitly only compared cars of the same ages, so only 3-4 years for both EV and gas powered
A total of 156 vehicle series from around 20 car brands were evaluated in the current breakdown statistics. All breakdowns during 2023 that affected vehicles between three and ten years old (first registered from 2014 to 2021) were taken into account. In order to be used statistically, the series must have at least 7,000 registrations in two years . If this requirement is met, all vehicle model years with at least 5,000 registrations will be displayed.
For context they seem to be specifically referencing the 12V “starter” battery not the HV battery used for the traction drive in EVs with that 44.1% figure. Additionally this figure seems to include all vehicles in the statistic, so some part of that is contributed by ICE vehicles.
Every single time my ICE car broke down, it was the 12V battery.
Comments like yours are why I’m trained to not bother reading the articles.
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I own a 2018 Nissan Leaf (40kwh). Zero issues, knock on wood. The only maintenance thus far, replace the brake fluid, replace the cabin air filter and before last winter, I decided to mount the Bridgestone Weatherpeak (All Weather) tires. The battery is still 100%. There are less parts involved and no emission control components that a re prone to failure.
I have a 2017 Tesla Model S (100kwh). I had my first maintenance issue this year. The 12v battery needed replacing (it runs the aux systems, just like an ICE vehicle) but didn’t keep me from driving while it was sending the error code. 107k miles and it’s mostly been wiper fluid, wiper blades, and 2 tire changes. I need to replace my windshield, but electrically and mechanically speaking… no major issues.
+1…I replaced the 12V battery this year too.
That’s good, standard batteries last around 5 years so you got 2 extra.
I just had a total brain lapse… yeah. I was replacing my battery every 3 years when I had a Buick. Humid, hot climate and what not.
With how often I read about Teslas falling apart, I kinda wonder if most of the breakdowns are just from those pieces of shit.
If the article says, lemme know. I can’t read German.
I could only find the Model 3 in their statistic.
- Year of registration: Breakdowns per 1000 vehicles
- 2021: 1.0
- 2020: 1.3
- 2019: 4.0
The best value for 2021 is 0.8 by the Audi A4 and A5, whilst the worst is the Toyota RAV4 with 17.6.
Overall they rank the Model 3 with “very low” and “low” rate of failure.
Granted these cars are still pretty young so who knows what that figure will look like in 5 or 10 years.
With how often I read about Teslas falling apart
Teslas have one of the highest owner satisfactions. I know a lot of people who have them and not a single one of them has ever told me a major complaint.
They arent the garbage cars you are being tricked into believing they are. It’s just that some people hate (for good reason) musk, so every failure they can link to him is going to be posted here.
So you’re mistaking hearing about it more with it actually happening more.
Reminds me of the Ohio train derailment…all of a sudden train derailments were front and center and every one of them was being posted to reddit…and then plenty of people thinking that means it was happening way more.
The media currently loves shitting on Tesla because Elon is a dick. The cars aren’t bad and a lot of the issues you hear about were early iteration problems that happen to all hardware manufacturers… that’s why you see a lot of the legacy auto brands backing off production despite the actual sales and adoption numbers. I wouldn’t buy a cybertruck for a few years, but most of their other cars are mature enough to be good purchases that save money over the life of the purchase.
I have a 2017 model s with 107k miles on it that I haven’t had any major issues with. I’ll never go back to an ICE vehicle and am waiting on a good electric motorcycle to hit the market.
I remember reading the quality control stuff was often cosmetic. Like interior trim pieces might fall off, or the exterior body panels didn’t align as well as you would like. That was ages ago though. Not sure how they are now. Elon ruined the appeal for me.
Those were problems reported early in the production development process for some lines. It’s not currently dominating the news feed because they have their process fine tuned and that problem doesn’t happen much anymore… at least not any more than any other manufacturers.
It’s like everything you heard about the cybertruck rusting for a few weeks and then found out it had to do with metal dust on the vehicle’s surface from railway shipping. You hear about the problem and the “outrageousness” that it exists at all from the media, then never hear about what the problem actually was, whether they solved it, and whether it continues happening after they execute their fix.
I wouldn’t buy a new line of theirs for 2-3 years to make sure they work through all the manufacturing issues. Ford’s EVs… I wouldn’t buy one of those for 2-3 years after they get to scale production. At this point, it’s looking like that may be a decade, if it ever happens at all. Rivian is closer on the R1T/R1S, but still a few years from scale.
Teslas have one of the highest owner satisfactions.
Well, they’re excellent dick substitutes. Most of the gearheads I talk to find them to be kinda janky just as a car.
I don’t actually have hard data or personal experience either, but any luxury product is going to get great reviews from owners, so that’s not much of a help.
Audi, Mercedes, and Infiniti are all near the bottom, so you’re wrong about the final point.
What about, like, Lamborghini? (Linking the data would also be good)
But where were you getting the idea that luxury brands were always well liked if it wasn’t from data? I have two possible take aways from this: you either just made it up, or you have some data you are hypocritically not providing.
I have pretty strong anecdotal and theoretical data, which is inferior to hard empirical data, but better than nothing. I think most users would agree they’ve never heard someone say “I’ve never liked this Gucci bag”. It’s there to show off, and be proud of, even if it’s the exact same bag as a cheaper brand. Even if they don’t like it, it’s a Gucci bag, and a huge sunk cost, so they aren’t likely to admit it.
My impression of Tesla is similar. People buy them to show off. I know people who own cars from the nicer brands like Mercedes-Benz, but to them that’s normal and more mainstream brands are cheap crap, so I asked about Lambos. In your data, Porsche is also high up, which makes sense, and maybe BMW. Cadillac is surprisingly low, though.
How convenient that your “theoretical data” supports your point. Unfortunately, my theoretical data - that people think Teslas are bad cars either because they hate Musk or because they think anything that even sniffs of green is some kind of scam and would never admit they are any good - completely contradicts yours.
Oh well, we’ll have to use actual data…and look at that, it appears that luxury brands cars are not all well loved, which also contradicts your theoretical data, but not mine.
Doesn’t say from what I understand. It’s a short article with a simple point to make. Very German.
Consider what a disservice BMW is doing to the ICE side of the statistics!
The logical follow on from this is that EV owners should have cheaper car insurance. With far fewer moving parts they will also have much cheaper maintenance costs. Added to that EVs are cheaper to buy. China has reached the point where 50% of new car sales are EVs much quicker than anyone expected. Most people thought that was years away, but we’re already there. How soon before people start talking about a “death spiral” when it comes to gasoline cars?
Relevant Data
Per 1,000 vehicles of 3 year old cars
ICE 6.4
BEV 2.8
The ADAC even noted a growing lead for electric cars in recent years. The analysis was based on the more than 3.5 million call-outs made by ADAC breakdown services last year
EVs are cheaper to buy.
I don’t undestand this. My ICE car cost 10k euros in France. Most EVs have a price around 40k. How is it cheaper?
It’s not, it’s a made up propaganda from a heavily subsidized Chinese industry.
The OP is correlating insurance to maintenance costs. That should tell you everything you need to know about the reliability of their statements.
Hehehe, I noticed that. It’s like they’ve never had insurance somehow.
Citroen Ami starts from €8k https://www.citroen.fr/ami
That’s… that’s not a car. Don’t get me wrong I like that thing a lot! But it’s not a fair comparison, even Citroen calls it a ‘light quadricycle’ or something like that, and I would say 8k€ is a bit expensive for a comfy electrical scooter you need a parking spot for.
Well, look, I don’t know what the French car market is like, but Dacia Sandera starts from €16k here in the UK (£13,795), so I have no clue which car you can buy for €10k. Ami is pretty much the only choice and it’s fully electric, even if it’s a quad bike. Also the new Dacia Spring EV is just £1k more expensive than Sandera. So yeah, no excuse to drive an ICE car.
I’m not French, nor I live there, either, but a friend of mine bought a Hyundai i30 like 1-2 months ago under 12k€. There are plenty of second hand cars under 10k. And I would say there are some excuses for ICE cars yet, for example virtually everybody in my country lives in an apartment, so unless charging stations are set up every 5 meters on all sidewalks (and in my neighborhood sidewalks are VERY narrow, some of them barely half a meter) most people are just bound to our polluting metal monsters.
Why are comparing new cars to use cars?
I think it’s fairer to compare new cars to used cars than new cars to new not-cars like the ami. Also I missed the part on the thread where it was specified anything about the car being brand new.
Look the prices of Dacia and MG.
If you just look at sticker price, it seems dumb to think of buying an ev. Think about all of the money you spend on top of that 10k initial purchase for an ice vehicle for maintenance and energy. Add up all of the expense associated with the car over the amount of time you use it. Now look at all of the cost associated with an EV. If the cost of the ice vehicle is less, buy that. If not, buy an ev.
I’ve saved around 2-3k a year on gas alone since I bought my ev. My electric rates are less than a third of what I was spending on gas. Never have to change the oil or flush a radiator either. If I drive it for around 1 more years, I’ll be saving money on the total purchase. If I drive it another 8 years, I’ll have saved more money than the total cost of the vehicle.
It’s all dependent on how much you buy it for, the tax incentives you can get, how much you drive, and where you can charge on whether it’s right for you. It’s not right for some and is a no-brainer for others.
Insurance has nothing to do with maintenance.
Car insurance doesn’t cover breakdowns. EVs are expensive to repair right now.
You must have shite car insurance 😂
The logical follow on from this is that EV owners should have cheaper car insurance.
Yet I see a future where EVs will account for a rise in T-bone accidents. You are saved from red light runners more often because ICE have a slower acceleration. Now imagine everyone has an EV with massive acceleration from a stop. We will see many more people being hit by red light runners.
Are you saying the victims increased takeoff speed will increase their chance to be struck by someone running a red light?
My understanding is that most the time someone runs a red light, they didnt stop first and then accelerate at top speed through it before it turned green. I could be wrong about that though
Does your insurance pay for maintenance?
I’m sure they’ll find a way to make them last exactly the length of the warranty, or come up with some bullshit regular maintenance that’s required.
Google translated English version of that web page / article.
All this tells is car producer haven’t reached peak profit yet. As with every product in capitalist humanity, they’ll now tweak the quality to be in line with the combustion engine cars. Anyone remember the story about light bulbs? How they’d last almost forever, but it was secretly decided that this is bad, as customers would never need to buy a new one, so they intentionally made them worse. eCars are still too new, so they are not daring enough yet.
Edit: thanks for the comments who backed me up.
Anyone remember the story about light bulbs? How they’d last almost forever, but it was secretly decided that this is bad, as customers would never need to buy a new one, so they intentionally made them worse.
WTF are you smoking? I think I’ve replaced 1 led bulb since switching to them 10 years ago.
As far as I know he’s talking about the old filament bulbs. And it’s actually a myth or at least a bad example of planned obsolescence. It is possible to make a light bulb that lasts virtually forever, but they would be expensive. It was a compromise between lifetime and production costs.
And where do you get those led bulbs? Mine break all the time…
And where do you get those led bulbs? Mine break all the time…
LOL maybe they are talking about LED bulbs then and I just bought mine before they went to shit.
It’s called planned obsolescence and is a well known aspect of modern product design, no conspiracies required.
Leds bulbs are definitely made to be break in a few 1000 hours. They push them to their max specs so they don’t last as long. But this way of course they sell more, no one wants to sell a bulb that lasts 10 years of continuous use.
If you’re buying cheap Chinese shit from a supermarket, then yes. But even my IKEA LED bulbs are in their 8 year without a sign of degradation.
LEDs don’t fail, cheap Chinese LED drivers do. Because they’re utter shit and a fire hazard.
As always, dependa what you buy. Initially, LED lamps were advertised as lasting 25 years, but nowadays you have much cheaper lamps, and more expensive ones.
GP is actually not totally wrong. The crappy light bulbs of the EVs is called Tesla.
The light bulbs being designed to fail is a myth. Light bulbs can last theoretically forever but when they are extremely dim. Ever seen the centennial light? You need to view it in a darkened room because it produces almost no visible light. The lifespan of a lightbulb is a function of the required brightness and power consumption.
Combustion engines are super complex. They have tons of parts that move and rub together causing lots of issues. Electric cars have electric motors that use magnets and very few parts. Leaving less to break.
I mean it makes perfect sense. EVs have a lot less moving parts that wear down
Why? Less parts less problems.
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They only compared vehicles of the same age.