Every year, the German testing institute TÜV records how each car model performs on the mandatory technical inspection. Its latest ranking also includes ten battery-only models. And as it turns out, they are no worse or better than internal combustion cars.
In theory, an electric car should have far fewer problems at MOT than its fossil counterpart. Since it does not emit any emissions, it does not need to appear for measurement. The collapse of the exhaust pipe or its leakage is also foreign to him. And leaking fluids? Maybe even from cooling, but no oil dripping from the gearbox or diesel fumes from the fuel pump.
But what seems at first glance to be a great benefit can be a little different. Even among electric cars, there are winners that pass the MOT like a knife through butter. And then there are cars that often need to be inspected again.
What are the most common defects in electric cars? “Due to the higher pressure, the suspension of the axles suffers, which wears out faster. On the other hand, the brakes are used very little due to recovery. reduced,” says Joachim Bühler, chief executive the director of the association TÜV.
Translated from a diplomatic speech, due to occasional use of the brakes, the brake discs may rust, and tight brake calipers may not have a braking effect even on both wheels. As a result, the car tends to roll to the side when braking.
The problem is known, so in the manual of many electric cars it is said that the driver should step on the brake very hard from time to time – so that the calipers move and the surface surface from the disks disappearing. Of course, everything must happen on an open road at a respectful distance from other cars.
The TÜV rating of ten electric cars shows that there is a big difference between individual cars when it comes to component durability. While the winning model has a serious or dangerous defect rate of 3.4 percent, the final car showed such defects in 14.2 percent of inspections. In practice, this means that while only three Volkswagen e-Golfs out of a hundred left the MOT without an MOT, on the other hand, fourteen out of a hundred Teslas had to return for re- study.
| Brand, type | The number of serious defects |
| Volkswagen e-Golf | 3.4% |
| Hyundai Kona Electric | 4.0% |
| Mini Cooper SE | 4.4% |
| Volkswagen ID.3 | 5.0% |
| Volkswagen ID.4 / ID.5 | 5.9% |
| Peugeot e208 | 6.4% |
| Volkswagen e-Up! | 7.5% |
| Opel Corsa-e | 8.3% |
| Renault Zoe | 8.9% |
| Tesla model 3 | 14.2% |
The ranking also shows that there is a big jump between the latest Tesla Model 3 and other electric cars. According to TÜV, Tesla is not only troubled by problems with brakes and axles, but above average also with lights.
The Tesla Model 3 is one of the most widespread electric cars in Europe, on the other hand, the Volkswagen e-Golf stopped selling four years ago. Although the electric Golf is much better than the American sedan in terms of technical analysis, it cannot match the Tesla in terms of battery size, range and charging speed.
The second place for the electric Hyundai Kona, produced in Moravian-Silesian Nošovice from 2020, is pleasing. Only four horses out of every hundred require repairs at the technical inspection. The Volkswagen e-Up, which is technologically equivalent to the Skoda Citigo-e, finished with 7.5 percent around the average.
2024-11-29 04:18:00
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