Article on increased chance of punctures with EV

[Aussi55]

36% of EV breakdowns tyre or wheel related often due to excess weight

Using data collected between 2018 and 2021, LV= Britannia Rescue says 36% of EV callouts are for wheel and tyre problems 'often attributed to heavier weight' of vehicles.

www.thisismoney.co.uk

Is this people's real world experience?

 

[pjmuk]

I read that and assumed punctures were a higher percentage of callouts for EV's as everything else is reliable! I guess for an ICE they have lots of other faults to deal with.

 

[MoDolph]

I read that and assumed punctures were a higher percentage of callouts for EV's as everything else is reliable! I guess for an ICE they have lots of other faults to deal with.

Exactly!

 

[Aussi55]

Yes, the headline should have included that. Nice to know overall EV less likely to need recovery.

Would you be covered by breakdown insurance if you had a spare tyre and called them out anyway I wonder.

 

[JCFlippen]

Yes, the headline should have included that. Nice to know overall EV less likely to need recovery.

Would you be covered by breakdown insurance if you had a spare tyre and called them out anyway I wonder.

I would call out MG Assist to change the spare wheel as I cannot do so …. Wouldn’t I?

 

[Gomev]

I would call out MG Assist to change the spare wheel as I cannot do so …. Wouldn’t I?

Why not, I had to do it once, in an ICE car on a motorway when a rear offside blew. I didn't fancy changing that so called out the breakdown people to do it while I waited way way up the embankment.

 

[Whiskery]

No problem with the AA - they will change a tyre. If you are on a motorway, they'll prioritise you too.

 

[BruceT]

This is a massively misleading headline, same in the mail online. The proportion of breakdowns callouts for EVs are tyres over mechanical, that only because basically the only common system that go wrong on the road between EVs an ICE cars are the tyres. EVs are very reliable.
What's next we get more smashed windscreens, because birds can't hear us coming??

 

[MoDolph]

What's next we get more smashed windscreens, because birds can't hear us coming??

Don't give them ideas!

 

[BruceT]

Don't give them ideas!

It's only us here........... right?

 

[bwanamdevu]

36% of EV breakdowns tyre or wheel related often due to excess weight

Using data collected between 2018 and 2021, LV= Britannia Rescue says 36% of EV callouts are for wheel and tyre problems 'often attributed to heavier weight' of vehicles.

www.thisismoney.co.uk

Is this people's real world experience?

Hi mate! How are things? I read this article a couple of hours ago and was going to put a post in here about it but you beat me to it! One bit that caught my eye was this ….. “….so drivers caught mid-journey with a flat tyre or wheel issue can't fix the problem themselves and need towing to a local garage.'
I thought that you couldn’t tow an EV and that it had to be put onto a low-loader vehicle to take it away. But then I probably stand to be corrected if I am wrong and I usually am!

 

[BruceT]

Hi mate! How are things? I read this article a couple of hours ago and was going to put a post in here about it but you beat me to it! One bit that caught my eye was this ….. “….so drivers caught mid-journey with a flat tyre or wheel issue can't fix the problem themselves and need towing to a local garage.'
I thought that you couldn’t tow an EV and that it had to be put onto a low-loader vehicle to take it away. But then I probably stand to be corrected if I am wrong and I usually am!

You are right, you can't tow it with the front wheels on the ground. You could use a dolly or a front wheel lift, so you don't actually NEED a flatbed