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Plus there are new areas of maintenance: sensors, cameras, batteries and so on. I'm not sure why the article is so confident about battery life. It's not just
by joosters 10y ago
Plus there are new areas of maintenance: sensors, cameras, batteries and so on.
I'm not sure why the article is so confident about battery life. It's not just about total lifetime mileage. As the battery degrades, the capacity drops and so its range decreases, making the car progressively less useful. It's not like the car gets to the claimed 70000 miles and then drops dead.
- vvanders 10y agoSource for battery maintence? Tesla has been out many years now and their battery degradation has been beating expectations so far. The 100k mi taxi that was posted a few weeks ago was only showing ~2% loss and I think he had the car for quite a few years. I think it's been shown that with proper thermal management battery degradation is not a major factor.
- myself248 10y agoIronically enough, the 12v battery seems to work much harder in Teslas, since the electronic systems don't enter deep sleep as aggressively as they do in other cars. https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/near-annual-replacement-of-12v-battery-is-typical-according-to-tesla-service-tech.41006/ https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/near-annual-replacem... The lithium batteries last a very long time, at least.
- CydeWeys 10y agoThe 70,000 miles figure itself is already wildly pessimistic. Electric vehicles have already been on the roads for enough time for some of them to get well past 70K miles driven, and the potential worries over battery packs degrading simply hasn't come to fruition.