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I wonder how much of that is EV drivers not bothering to service their vehicles, obviously no oil change required, and things like brake pads don't get maintained so well.
These cars are relatively new, for some countries the first mandatory safety check is at 2 years for others it's at 4 years. so these checks are while most cars are still under warranty. By far the most people have them checked at the regular service intervals.
There is also no reason to expect either Tesla owners or other EV owners should be worse at having their cars maintained than other car owners.
And while Tesla has a failure rate of almost 50% in the countries that have the first mandatory check at 4 years, other electric cars are way way better, and top of class. Here in Denmark the VW ID.4 which is currently the top selling EV, has a failure rate at first mandatory safety check of only 2%.
This is not about EV cars in general, but Tesla alone that has a very bad problem with their quality and safety standards.
There are no regular service intervals with Tesla though. Which I honestly prefer. Add to that their notoriously bad quality control and the fact that friction brakes are almost never used, so they rot and rust away, and you have a perfect little shitshow of their own making.
The breaks is the same for all EV's though. So there is no reason for Tesla brakes to rust more than other brands.
Here Tesla recommend service at 4 years, IDK how it is after that first service. But that coincide with the first mandatory safety check. Most brands have biannual intervals, which coincide with the safety checks being biannual after the first one.
I bet most Tesla users have their car serviced before the mandatory safety check, because the car warranty also end after 4 years. So it would be pretty stupid not to.
So my guess is that the Tesla service checks are shit too.
It is also remarkable that Tesla has 2 design features that are about to become illegal, the blinkers on the steering wheel, and the flux door handles because they don't work for emergencies.
Tesla is simply not designing and building with safety in mind as much as other car makers.
So yes a shitshow indeed.
Other brands might be smart enough to use the friction breaks a bit more (or a lot more, which would not be that smart).
Then again, even the original Prius, the very model of quality and reliability, could get rusty brakes if driven exclusively in very flat areas.
Afaik the newer cars, at least the current model Y, have the blinker stalk again. Even Tesla had to concede that the yoke/joke steering wheel was at the very least not acceptable to too many customers.
The door handles are terrible, too. At least in the front you get a lever to open the door from the inside in case of a power failure (normal opening is with a button). The rear doors only have a small pull wire under a hidden hatch in the door pockets. Its bad enough that they didn’t integrate the electronic and mechanical opening in the front for some reason, but the rear is just utter madness. Someone should make them issue a recall and fix all the crazy doors.
LOL 😋 I live in Denmark a country that is mostly flat, our highest "mountain" is a hill you can "climb" in half an hour.
And I live in the flattest part of the country. I just recently figured out that to brake without the regenerative braking, I have to put the car in Neutral. Regenerative breaking does not have a setting to disable it.
I think the blinker stalk may have become law here in EU, the directive for the door handles are AFAIK passed, but has a grace period, so China came first with making the door handles illegal, passing the law later, but enforcing it sooner. Kudos to China on that one.
I think in USA the department to make these regulations was closed by Elon Musk, in a very legal and very beautiful cooperation between government and private efficiency, as Trump would probably put it. 🤡
4 year warranty?
That's a joke
My BYD has eight years, and I got the cheapest one they make
it's ridiculous cars have only 4 years warranty.
That's a very good warranty, I think most companies have 4 years here, but BYD is new to their export markets, and they need to give people confidence to capture market share.
KIA and MG offer 7 year warranty here. KIA had serious quality problems not so long ago, so I guess they had to up the game. Here BYD offers 6 years, and Hyundai 5.
The problem with Kia and Hyundai is that you can’t really trust their warranty anymore. Which is very unfortunate, I really like the Ioniq 5 otherwise.
Why can't you trust Hyundai and Kia warranty?
Google ICCU. Total shitshow.
I don't see anything worrisome, because of problems with the ICCU they have the extended the warranty, and I haven't heard of problems with neither Hyundai or KIA here in Denmark. A decade ago, it was a gamble to buy a used KIA because they were rust buckets, but they are way better protected now.
Other brands have better statistics. EVs get service notifications just as any other kind of car. They get pollen filter,12 v battery, wheel, brakes and software updates changes just as often.
Tesla is simply singlehandedly dragging the fail rates down on the entire EV segment, making EV failures a talking point on Facebook.