Electric vehicles, including those from Tesla, are among some of the least reliable sold in the United States, according to the Consumer Reports 2022 Annual Auto Reliability survey released Tuesday.
Consumer Reports (CR) is a nonprofit research, testing, and consumer advocacy organization.
Each year, the organization surveys members to find out if they encountered any problems with their vehicles in the past 12 months in 17 areas, including the engine, transmission, in-car electronics, and others.
Consumer Reports then uses that information to predict the reliability ratings for new cars from every major automaker for every model sold in the United States.
In this year’s survey, data was collected from owners of over 300,000 vehicles from the 2000 to 2022 model years as well as early 2023 models. Predictions for 2023 models are “based on each year’s overall reliability for the past three years, provided that the model hasn’t been redesigned during that time,” according to Consumer Reports….