A new study shows that thermal cars are on average more reliable than other types of vehicles.
The environmental imperative and the objectives of reducing carbon dioxide emissions seem to ultimately condemn cars equipped with internal combustion engines. However, after decades and decades of development, they are extremely robust. And this, more than the competitors, who have nevertheless become much more popular in recent years. In any case, this is what a new study, which has just been published, shows.
Thermal vehicles are the most reliable
A few days ago, a TÜV-SÜD report showed that the Tesla Model 3 electric vehicle was one of the least reliable vehicles on the market. But the car produced by the American firm would only be the most extreme representation of a more general trend: electric vehicles are not worth thermal vehicles.
This is what a ranking published by Consumer Reports states, and whose media Engadget echoes. According to this document, electric vehicles have on average 79% more maintenance problems than their thermal competitors. Worse, plug-in hybrid vehicles would be even more fragile, with 146% more problems than vehicles with an internal combustion engine.
The exception of the hybrid car
Not enough to make consumers want to take the plunge on electricity, especially at a time when the government is announcing that electricity prices will be increased again. However, these reliability problems would not be observable on all types of new vehicles.
Non-rechargeable hybrid cars would, in fact, have on average 26% fewer maintenance problems than gasoline or diesel vehicles. For its study, Consumer Reports analyzed some 330,000 vehicles, with the vast majority of models released between 2000 and 2023.
Source : Engadget
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