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This is pretty surprising. What it means is that most owners will not need to replace their batteries in the time that they own the car. In my 'total cost of ow
by 11thEarlOfMar 9y ago
This is pretty surprising. What it means is that most owners will not need to replace their batteries in the time that they own the car. In my 'total cost of ownership' models, I've assumed a battery replacement at 100,000 miles, but that appears to not be necessary. This changes the calculation considerably. Not to mention that if the drive train can go 400,000 miles without needing major repair, I can keep the car 2x as long as an ICE, further reducing the cost of owning an electric vehicle.
- toomuchtodo 9y agoMusk has made a comment on an investor call that they're targeting a million mile lifespan for the motor.
- dalbasal 9y agoI think ICE cars are just not optimized for prolonged life. Many countries have policies discouraging long lifespans, more than ever since emmissions laws. Also, EOL for a car is several owners and 5-10 years removed from first purchase. This adds up to a realtiy where doubling the expected lifespan is not worth much more, in sales. Basically, if Tesla want to make this a goal then beating benchmarks should be relatively easy.
- dsfyu404ed 9y agox2. Modern vehicles have a targeted minimum lifetime based on certain usage models. That's why people who are driving a pickup truck around all day for work with a few hundred pounds of equipment (e.g. medical equipment service technician) get 500k+ out of them and oil field trucks are beat before 100k.
- compute_me 9y agocheck this out: http://www.tesloop.com/blog/2017/8/30/tesla-model-s-hits-300k-miles-with-less-than-11k-maintenance-costs http://www.tesloop.com/blog/2017/8/30/tesla-model-s-hits-300...