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What You Need To Know About Pickup EVs

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Heavier electric vehicles are becoming more common as EV battery technology becomes more reliable and powerful and shows up in larger vehicles, like the GMC Hummer pickup and Audi Q8, among others. The initial cost of electric vehicles is still much higher than standard ones. This article may contain affiliate links.

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Consumer Reports Says EVs Less Reliable Than Traditional Automobiles

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However, standard hybrids actually outperformed every other group with 26 percent fewer problems than vehicles wholly reliant on gasoline. But it also left your author wondering why standard hybrids weren’t seeing the same number of problems. Data is accrued primarily on model years from between 2000 and 2023.

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Consumer Reports: Tesla and other domestic brands take big steps backwards in reliability rankings

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Making air suspension and AWD standard in the 2017 model has added more complexity and more things that could potentially falter. GMC inches up one spot to number 25 due to average or above reliability for the Terrain, Yukon, and Yukon XL. It can take a year or two for carmakers to work out the kinks with new technology.

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