Tesla Tops Reliability Examine in France

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Tesla has not been generally known as the king of reliability. On the contrary, it has been recognized to attain badly in quite a lot of reliability research within the US and Germany. It has gotten higher over time, although. And a brand new auto reliability research in France truly finds it topping the charts.

Passing up Toyota within the rating by French journal Auto Plus, after not being labeled in any respect in earlier years, Tesla was recognized as having the least early issues of all of the automakers examined in 2025. The evaluation involved automobiles registered since January 1, 2018, which have fewer than 150,000 kilometers on the odometer.

Apart from “suspension arm points, no recurring issues have been reported,” the evaluation discovered, and people are lined underneath Tesla’s 4-year or 80,000 km guarantee. Another minor points have been sometimes recognized — laptop glitches and door deal with points — however they have been apparently not seen as constant or critical points, a minimum of not in comparison with the problems recognized in different manufacturers’ autos.

Right here is how the rating was represented by the French journal:

Yeah, I additionally didn’t study sufficient French to make a lot sense of that, however due to Bertrand Moreau for sharing.

EV lovers have lengthy argued that the a lot less complicated powertrains of electrical autos ought to imply they break much less, and have fewer upkeep and reliability wants. This research appears to again up that time. Although, it will be good if we additionally acquired extra data on the reliability of different auto manufacturers’ EV fashions versus non-EV fashions.