So it was bothering me that I couldn’t find a nice tidy list of results from that What Car survey, so I made one.
6 of the 8 EVs are above the overall average for reliability and all of hybrids are above average. Feel free to play around with the data yourself, I’ve run out of time to make fancy graphs etc. Maybe later.
So the What Car comment that “you’re less guaranteed to find satisfaction if you buy an electric car.” seems a bit disingenuous to me, as its seems to only be referring to older model leafs, Tesla model S and MG ZS EV. Every other model of EV is higher than average reliability. If were to pick an ICE at random, you’re more likely to get a less reliable car than if you were to pick an EV at random.
edit: note that the model 3 is included twice as it belongs to two categories. There are probably a couple other anomalies.
edit2: In terms of category average, hybrids and EVs both beat every other category average.
edit3: I can’t find any information about sample sizes or criteria for inclusion in the survey. So I have no idea why certain cars are not included and I don’t know whether the lists they provide on their website are exhaustive.