Reliability evaluation of Tesla's EV is falling rapidly after years

Tesla announced the settlement of Q3 (July to September) in 2018, and finally achieved a profit. Although it is Tesla who has passed through a long tunnel with poor management for the first time in two years to give net profit in the quarterly financial results, it is high in the reliability evaluation of the authoritative consumer information magazine " Consumer Reports (Consumer Report) " in the United States It was revealed that the model S and model X which had been evaluated are rapidly lowering the ranking.

Tesla plummets in Consumer Reports reader reliability survey - Autoblog
https://www.autoblog.com/2018/10/24/tesla-consumer-reports-reliability-survey/

According to Tesla's announcement on October 24, 2018, the 2018 Q 3 settlement is a surplus of sales of 6,824,441,000 dollars (about 734 billion yen), free cash flow of 880 million dollars (about 98.6 bil yen) Net profit was also $ 315.11 million (about 34.9 billion yen), the first time in two years since Q3 in 2016 it turned out to be a surplus. As a result of continuing to improve production trouble of "cheap model 3" which is the cheapest model, it seems that he finally achieved a surplus. Following Tesla's favorable financial results, stock prices are up 11% on overtime transactions.

Tesla Third Quarter 2018 Update
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With the prospect of mass production of the main car, Model 3, and the anticipating reversal of Tesla is expected at the moment, the Consumer Report announced the evaluation showing "a sudden drop in the reliability of Model S · Model X".

Guide to Car Reliability - Consumer Reports
https://www.consumerreports.org/cars-car-reliability-guide/

Reliability Ranking by Maker by Consumer Reports Ranking in 2018 is as follows. The top two are Toyota's luxury brands "Lexus" and "Toyota." These two companies (2 brands) have formed a two-story tooth for six consecutive years while changing the ranking, and have established a status of immovable as a manufacturer that provides "highest reliability" without complaint. As Japanese manufacturers occupy the top team, Tesla is relegated to 6 levels from the previous year, sanking down 27th among 29 companies.

Initially, although Tesla cars were highly evaluated with high customer satisfaction and highly evaluated for reliability, Model S showed a lot of trouble reports from users about doors and air suspension, and Model X features characteristic gull wing Ing) and center display malfunction reports have been successively evaluated. It is a disgraceful result that it is chosen as "lowest ranked automobile worst 10" among about 300 models, leading to Model X.

Consumer report Jake Fisher said, "It is a complicated situation in which Tesla has to be dropped, the majority of the problems actually seen in Tesla vehicles are mechanical problems," according to OTA's software update It suggests difficult problems. Electric vehicles (EV), which are relatively simple in structure and thought to have low barriers to new entry, are not different from existing cars except for power sources. As for ensuring reliability at the time of long-term use, it seems that long-established manufacturers still have a chief of the day.