Consumer Reports’ latest used-car reliability leaderboard has some surprises.

  • markovs_gun@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Is that because they are the largest share of EVs? I hate Musk and Tesla too but EVs in general have fire risks that ICE cars don’t have due to the batteries. I think a more fair comparison would be Tesla vs. Other EVs rather than Tesla vs. all cars. EVs are worse than ICE cars if they catch fire because the giant lithium battery bank right under the passenger compartment and this is kind of true for any EV and not just Tesla.

    • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
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      2 days ago

      You may be correct. Unfortunately all I can find are statistics about electric cars vs gas car fires. It is a known fact however that several Model S EV’s have caught fire while just sitting there parked, I haven’t heard of that from any other manufacturer but I haven’t heard all news there is to hear.