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

Just link the original article[0], the cbsnews article has like zero depth. But even the consumer reports article lacks a lot of depth - I&#x27;m sure they want me to subscribe.<p>Anyway, I was hoping to see what specifically was the problems other than generic &quot;charging problems&quot;. Like which make+model and what kind of &quot;charging problem&quot; was it. Simple like the app failed or really complex like the charger unit needed to be replaced.<p>Teslas are notorious for cabin problems&#x2F;cheapness, but their drive train has way less complaints. So I&#x27;d like to see how they fair.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.consumerreports.org&#x2F;cars&#x2F;car-reliability-owner-satisfaction&#x2F;who-makes-the-most-reliable-cars-a7824554938&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.consumerreports.org&#x2F;cars&#x2F;car-reliability-owner-s...</a>

Not mentioned in the article (but present in the original source) is that non-plugin hybrids have 26% fewer problems than ICE cars - I wonder why this is.

Squeaky brakes? Is that a real problem?

Bolt not listed even though it is one of the best selling electric cars, and the Bolt seems to have a paywalled reliability score on their site. Not sure what to make of this report. Is it mostly tesla that has poor reliability?

Electric vehicles have nearly 80% more problems and are generally less reliable than cars propelled by conventional internal combustion engines, according to a new report from Consumer Reports.

CR has a long history of bias against anything electric in their reporting and headlines.<p>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.<p>If their 330K survey responses follow the same distribution as new vehicle sales, only about 23K of them were BEVs. That doesn&#x27;t seem like a representative sample of the roughly 1M BEVs sold each year.