Sucks that while they can build something so awesome, they pay their dues to the American Alliance of Auto Manufacturers, which lobbied successfully to get emissions/CAFE requirements weakened. Nissan for me.
Bob Bath, from his iPod, so any misspellings are from autocorrect or fat fingers on a small device, not cluelessness... > On Oct 24, 2017, at 4:50 AM, brucedp5 via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > > > > % CR wants Tesla to pay more attention to them % > > https://electrek.co/2017/10/20/bolt-reliable-chevy/ > EV simplicity wins: Consumer Reports names new Bolt most reliable car in > Chevy’s line > Oct. 20th 2017 Jameson Dow > > [image > https://electrek.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/2017-chevrolet-boltev-053-e1493127019807.jpg?quality=82&w=1024#038;strip=all&w=1600 > ] > > It’s often expected for new models to receive low reliability ratings, but > Chevy has bucked that trend with the Bolt. In Consumer Reports’ new > reliability ratings released yesterday, while Chevy as an overall brand > scored relatively low (18th place), the Bolt came in as the most reliable > car the manufacturer sells, out of 15 models (the highest number of models > of any manufacturer ranked by CR). > > This is great news, because the Bolt is a great car in pretty much every > other way too. It won Motor Trend’s Car of the Year and many other awards, > and we really like it, even though it’s not without its quibbles. Despite > all these awards, sales initially lagged (though they’re picking up as the > car is made more available nationwide), so perhaps CR’s rating will help GM > sell some more Bolts – if they actually want to. We’ll see if Chevy puts the > Bolt, their most reliable car, front and center in its national ad campaign > about winning awards for reliability. > > Given that the Bolt has only been out for about a year now, and the survey > (which goes out in April) only covers the first six months of production, > it’s quite exceptional that these very early cars had so few quality issues. > Of course, it could be that some issues might develop as time goes on, and > it’s entirely possible that the ratings will drop as the car becomes more > widely available or more of them get on the road. But this would be > opposite to the standard expectation that early cars tend to have more > problems, so it seems that GM has done something remarkable here. > > Electrek’s Take > > As Consumer Reports mentioned in their analysis of Tesla’s reliability which > we reported on yesterday, electric cars will tend to be more reliable than > internal combustion cars because the powertrain is much simpler, with fewer > moving parts and dealing with much less significant stresses (e.g. no > explosions, ideally anyhow). Until now, though, Tesla, the best-known > manufacturer of EVs, has not faired exceptionally in CR’s survey, though > this is somewhat to be expected of a new manufacturer (and as the article > from yesterday states, they do seem to be improving, and the quality issues > on the Model X are notably not problems with the powertrain). > > But Chevy is not a new manufacturer, so they give us a better idea of what a > well-designed EV can do in terms of reliability. The Bolt is really a > well-thought-out package, and has several touches which shows that Chevy > intentionally designed the car as an EV, not just some retrofit of a > previous vehicle platform. It’s still not quite as “from-the-ground-up” as > Teslas have been, as the Bolt does share many parts with other GM models, > but this emphasis on designing the car around the powertrain has turned out > well for GM. > > Another thing to note in the rankings is that the i3 is BMW’s least reliable > car ... > > These ratings show the benefit of EV technology – as electric vehicle > advocates have been saying for a long time, if you just design an EV from > the ground up to be simple, it will turn out to be much more reliable than > an ICE car. For various reasons, most EVs on the road haven’t yet taken > advantage of this inherent advantage – either because they’re from a new > manufacturer who’s still working out kinks (Tesla), or they’re based in > large part on existing vehicle platforms if not just a complete retrofit > (nearly everything else). > > It will be interesting to see how Tesla’s Model 3 fares when CR actually > gets one in hand. > [© electrek.co] > > > > https://www.autoblog.com/2017/10/20/consumer-reports-reliability-survey-tesla-objects-rankings/ > Consumer Reports reliability ratings: Tesla bitterly complains, and ... > Oct 20, 2017 Update: Consumer Reports has issued a response to Tesla's > criticisms: "Tesla ... although electric cars such as the Tesla Model 3 and > the Chevrolet Bolt should ... > ... > http://www.thedrive.com/sheetmetal/15315/consumer-reports-predicts-average-reliability-for-model-3-tesla-complains > Consumer Reports Predicts 'Average' Reliability For Model 3, Tesla ... > Oct 20, 2017 Overall, electric cars fared better than their > internal-combustion counterparts, and ... Soon after the report was released > Thursday, Tesla criticized Consumer ... The Chevrolet Bolt EV was named the > most reliable model from the Bowtie brand ... > ... > http://www.carscoops.com/2017/10/tesla-slams-consumer-reports-for-giving.html > Giving: How Each of Us Can Change t… > 2017/10/20 Tesla Slams Consumer Reports For Giving Model 3 Average … > Tesla has slammed Consumer … > ... > http://234vibesnews.com/2017/10/20/tesla-model-3-will-have-average-reliability.html > Tesla Model 3 will have 'average reliability' > 2017/10/20 General Motors' new Chevrolet Bolt EV, for example, is that > brand's most reliable model, rating "above average", according to Consumer > Reports. > ... > https://www.google.com/search?biw=1024&bih=622&q=Consumer+Reports+Bolt+Tesla > search > https://www.google.com/search?q=silly+tween+quibbles > > > > > For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: > http://evdl.org/evln/ > > > {brucedp.neocities.org} > > -- > Sent from: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/ > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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