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Here’s How BYD Rocked Toyota’s Manufacturing World (insideevs.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Personally I put reliability into 2 categories.

First is the powertrain i.e gearbox, engine which toyota is famously good at. Only requiring routine servicing and not developing unexpected issues.

The second is other miscellaneous stuff that does not prevent the car from not being able to drive you from place to place safely.

I suppose most electric cars do the first part well as there is no engine or gearbox to fail.

Usually the more complex the electronics and interior trim pieces are the more there is to go wrong. Eventually the sunroof will leak, power window switches will fail, tpms will need new batteries etc. More specifically for the atto3 I wonder how the guitar door string and rotating screen will hold up.

Toyota is not exactly immune from quality issues. I have encounted less than a year old toyotas that power steering or automatic parking brake has failed.

Personally I think all car manufacturers should do the tesla method of directly selling and servicing the car. That should prevent any issues with crappy dealerships.