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I have a tesla and somehow in 4 years of ownership have not had to replace my drivetrain (anecdote, blah blah). But earlier, Tesla had a goal to get people back
by sammydavis 10y ago
I have a tesla and somehow in 4 years of ownership have not had to replace my drivetrain (anecdote, blah blah). But earlier, Tesla had a goal to get people back on the road faster, so they had a deliberate policy of replacing drivetrains since it was so easy. Now they decided it was better to just fix minor issues. Result is not so many drive trains have been replaced since then.
- dragontamer 10y agoThe first unit from Edmunds had them stranded in the middle of a highway as the drive unit failed in the field. http://www.edmunds.com/tesla/model-s/2013/long-term-road-test/2013-tesla-model-s-stuck-on-the-freeway.html http://www.edmunds.com/tesla/model-s/2013/long-term-road-tes... > I called a friend who lived nearby and asked him to take my kid home. No need for both of us to be stuck on the side of a freeway. He suggested we put the car in neutral and roll it over to the shoulder or down the onramp and onto the street. Great suggestions, but we couldn't get the car out of gear. This seemed to be a common issue. Yeah, I know you were fine anecdotally, but so are hundreds of thousands of people with Takata airbags. The reliability metric is not "how many people are fine", but instead "how many people had issues". For a 100k vehicle, the number of issues reported on the Tesla S is far above its competition. Enough so that Consumer Reports had to rescind their spectacular recommendation.