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> As a Prius owner, I am also amused by the oft-repeated Tesla claim of 'All electric! Simpler system! Fewer repairs!' - given the many production defects they
by outworlder 10y ago
> As a Prius owner, I am also amused by the oft-repeated Tesla claim of 'All electric! Simpler system! Fewer repairs!' - given the many production defects they seem to have.
Those are not mutually exclusive. You can have fewer parts and a simpler system and yet a high number of failures. That just means they need to improve the manufacturing.
Another way to look at is: your Prius is not much more complicated than a "normal" car, as the EV portion adds so few parts ;)
And that's assuming Tesla really does have that many defects to begin with. Much like their accidents, could be biased reporting.
- vkou 10y agoThey aren't - but as a consumer, the only metric that matters is: "How often does the car break?" Cries of "Simpler system" cloud the issue. When talking about reliability, I don't care if it's reliable because it uses an ICE, or because it runs on rainbows and unicorn dust. I just care that it's reliable!
- outworlder 10y agoAgreed. They are using the potential higher reliability as a marketing point. Everything else being equal, they'd be right. But everything else is not equal, at least not yet.