"The main problem areas involved the drivetrain, power equipment, charging equipment, giant iPad-like center console, and body and sunroof squeaks, rattles, and leaks," wrote the group in its analysis.
As we reported earlier, the "main problems," involve the drivetrain, power equipment, charging equipment, its touch-screen center console and various sunroof issues, including leaks.
The "main problems," says the report's authors, involve the drivetrain; power equipment; charging equipment; its giant iPad-like center console; and body and sunroof squeaks, rattles and leaks.
Consumer Reports stated last year that the company's $70,000 Model S was showing "a worse-than-average overall problem rate," and identified the main problem areas as its "drivetrain, power equipment, charging equipment, giant iPad-like center console, and body and sunroof squeaks, rattles, and leaks".
"Consumer Reports also found that customers rate Tesla service as the best in the world". Consumer Reports surveyed 1,400 Model S owners "who chronicled an array of detailed and complicated maladies" with the drivetrain, power equipment, charging equipment and giant iPad-like center console.
The magazine noted that "the main problem areas involved the drivetrain, power equipment, charging equipment, giant iPad-like center console, and body and sunroof squeaks, rattles, and leaks". Boiled down to its basics, The Model S might be cool to test drive but it soon begins to have the very problems that Musk himself once mocked the Detroit automakers.
In addition to the installation and equipment charge, there is also a monthly service charge.
Costs included inpatient hospital, outpatient, physician, and durable medical equipment charges.
The biggest increases in expenses included 36percentt in occupancy and equipment charges, 22percentt in communications and 14percentt in advertising.
