Yesterday a taxicab driver in Prague picked me up in a Tesla Model S.
The car was a 2014 and still was on its original battery.
The guy said the car has not required any extensive repairs and he was satisfied with it overall.
The odometer read 420,000 kilometers.
How is this possible?
His experience with Tesla caught my interest since all I tend to hear is hate and lack od quality towards Tesla.
My guess would be that he did not use a supercharger, or not much. Likely slower charging it overnight.
I have seen multiple people having to replace their batteries well before 100k miles, and one guy with a model 3 had replace his battery twice by 60k miles!
I saw one guy with 1.2 million miles on a tesla model s, but he replaced his electric motor at least 14 times ($6k a piece), and battery 3 times (maybe 28k each?). So basically to get over a million miles he spent more than the car cost new. For that guy, his batteries did fairly well, but he was spending $6k every 80k miles just for the motors. Looks like they cost far more than a Nissan rogue with the exploding transmissions every 80k miles if you do good.
Did the guy have to ever replace a motor?
Not sure the gas savings, but pretty sure I can get a toyota to go that mileage, and cost a ton less, gas included.
Wonder how much he spent to charge the thing.
Whoa. I didn’t realize the motors go out so fast.
@kaizen yeah me either until I ran across it a couple of days ago. This video shows that some models are perhaps much worse, like the model s. It seems they have an issue with the rotor, possibly the regenrative braking or something, that causes an issue with the motor. also coolant can leak into it and kill it. Some commenters mention very early deaths of the motor, as soon as 6 miles.
Maybe some people are just racing them like crazy and killing them faster. Either way, a refurb motor is about $6k.
Scotty says it is possible because Model S is top of the line Tesla
https://youtu.be/IMbnV28WVqw?t=444
