Are you one of those who this Christmas are hoping Santa Clause shoves a new electric vehicle down your chimney, and under your tree, as your special treat? You may want to reconsider your request before it is too late. A recent Consumer Reports evaluation of these, certainly non-main attraction, EV's found:

-models from 2021 through 2023 encountered 80% more problems than did internal combustion (gasoline powered) vehicles, particularly in the very things that are supposed to make EV's operate: batteries and charging systems

-flaws in how the body parts, and the interior parts, of EV's join together

-EV manufacturers are still learning how to construct completely new power systems

And, you say you still want an EV for Christmas?

Jake Fisher, the Senior Director of Auto Testing at Consumer Reports, stated, "This story is really one of growing pains. It's a story of just working out the bugs and the kinks of new technology."

He doesn't say? May it be highly recommended while EV manufacturers attempt to improve those above stated issues, perhaps they better concentrate on how to make these other problems better as well:

-consumer concerns about the overall reliability of EV's

-the high expenses associated with EV's

-too few charging stations for EV's

Since 2022, those, and other matters, have slowed the growth rate of EV sales way down to less than a newborn infant's crawl. In June of that year, the sales rate of EV's topped out at 90% year over year. However, one year later, in June of 2023 to be exact, EV sales rates had fallen off dramatically to about 50%. This is a rate automakers of EV's expect to continue to decline.

These same EV automakers are so worried about the less than stellar quality of their products, the non-popular EV's, 3900 automakers sent JoJo Biden a love letter in which they expressed there is no way they can meet the fuel economy, and the emissions requirements of EV's, to reach the mandated 67% of all US vehicle sales by near the end of the next decade, in 2032. Why is this? Simply stated, wise consumers do not want the pieces of crap known as EV's.

Neither government incentives, manufacturer incentives, nor deep price cuts have proven of much value in trying to pawn off EV's onto savvy consumers, most of who do not desire EV's. C'est la vie!

On the same note, Consumer Reports further stated plug-in hybrids, which travel on battery power prior to a gas-electric powertrain kicking in to propel them, are even more problematic than full EV's. Proven issues with hybrids involve:

-they contain two complex power systems in which the opportunities for multiple glitches can more readily occur

-hybrid brands are even less reliable than full EV's. Jeep and Volvo are two of the largest manufacturers of hybrid vehicles.

Overall, EV's from the 2021 and 2022 model years had more than twice the problem rates of gasoline-powered vehicles. In addition, 2023 model EV's had 21% more of these problems. Even more wonderful news for EV's is Consumer Reports expects the problem rates of 2023 model EV's to rise significantly as the vehicles age. Wunderbar! (Which is German for wonderful. Except, EV's aren't. That presents quite a conundrum, doesn't it?)

So, if you are of the ilk of one of the aforementioned ones above pining for a new vehicle for Christmas, go ahead and ask Santa Baby if you still desire. But, you better think at least twice about making it an EV. Those craprods remain on the Naughty List.

You didn't ask...but!