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Teslas eat tires for breakfast. Instant torque and high weight - any benefit you get from regen breaking is not scratching that.
by rafaelmn 2y ago
Teslas eat tires for breakfast. Instant torque and high weight - any benefit you get from regen breaking is not scratching that.
- Schiendelman 2y agoAs a Tesla owner, I'm 33k in on a set of all seasons and still in the green on two. You can't move the goalposts like that - the same is true on an ICE sports car.
- hedora 2y agoThat’s nothing compared to an i3: I don’t even get 10K miles per set. Some people report getting as many as 12K with conservative driving. Part of the problem is the instant torque, but the narrow geometry is a bigger issue. Also, they did something to the formulation that achieves less rolling resistance for increased wear. I also don’t think the weight is the main issue. The i3 is a bit under 3000 lbs. That’s the same as a Volvo station wagon, and they didn’t have this problem. (If I remember right, you could get 50K mile Michelins for them.)
- ceejayoz 2y agoThis probably depends quite a bit on your acceleration/braking settings.
- YZF 2y agoMy model 3 is 5 years old and I'm still on my original set of tires (though in recent years I do put on winter tires for a few months a year). I don't usually drive like crazy (and it's an SR+ which is the least powerful model).
- rafaelmn 2y agoTrue, and you can do engine breaking and do milder acceleration curves in ICE car and that will significantly reduce the pad/tire wear. But if you drive like, I would speculate, most people do, Tesla will go through tires like a track car (half joking)
- Schiendelman 2y agoSure, but the same can be said for a performance ICE car.
- rafaelmn 2y agoAgreed, the only thing I would say here is that electrics kind of give you this torque/weight combo for an every day car so I would guess in the real world electric cars end up being worse on dust production. Hopefully tires can get optimized for this as well.
- AngryData 2y agoI could be wrong and be using outdated information, but aren't Tesla's stock tires also low rolling resistance tires? Which does mean less road friction and less wear, but also means lower maximum traction which is a tradeoff most anybody could make if they wanted.
- YZF 2y agoI think the stock Michelin Primacy MXM4 are a low rolling resistance tire.
- dzhiurgis 2y agoTesla model 3 and is lighter than bmw 3, but not as light as bare-ass corolla. They do eat tyres because they are fun to drive, not because of weight.