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Given the simplicity of electric cars I feel like the Tesla would be in a pretty good spot. But Tesla's continuous improvement means parts aren't tied to model
by reitzensteinm 6y ago
Given the simplicity of electric cars I feel like the Tesla would be in a pretty good spot.
But Tesla's continuous improvement means parts aren't tied to model years and are often already hard to track down. They're not going to be made by third parties given the lack of scale.
I'm foreseeing small faults totalling otherwise perfectly good cars later on in the current generation.
If Tesla ramps up like they're claiming though, this problem will sort itself out.
- monadic2 6y agoI don't know anything about cars, but do those old BMWs have software that requires maintenance? Tesla likely will.
- reitzensteinm 6y agoAt some point they can just freeze the upgrades like Apple does and just provide maintenance. A bit of a pain to be supporting some LTS versions, but not that big relative to the billions in sales you're supporting with it.
- monadic2 6y agoPresumably they'll end of life the car at some point and repair will shift to third party shops. Do they have access to the internals of the car?
- Spooky23 6y agoLol. “Continuous improvement” is a great euphemism.