So True 😏 hey whatever gets the ratings up.

A new Model S 70 battery is less than $20k, so it wouldn’t have been sent to the crusher. If you average that over $250k miles, that would be 0.8 cents per mile, which is still a substantial savings over a comparable ICE car. When I ran the numbers, a Model 3 driven semi-aggressively costs the same per mile as a Camry…

My overall impression is that dispite a ton of stories about Telsa QC, this thing is in really nice condition for the miles. I am impressed.

“...current warranty for the battery...”

Sorry, but I can’t resistor pun.

How’s the battery holding up?  And how much mileage does it have on it?

Different model year cars have different warranties. Present day, Tesla is 8 years 100k/120k/150k mile depending on model. In the past, it had been 8 year unlimited mile warranty. Similarly to how present day you might get 1000 miles of free charging when you first get the car but pay for the rest, while early Model S…

Funny enough about 30% of the cars I’ve owned (3/11) have had door handle issues, but not my Tesla. Lock broke in my Fiero so you could only open it from the inside, door handle trim came off on the inside of my Pontiac G5, and the passenger exterior door handle literally fell off my Fiat 500.

Who would have thought retracting door handles would become a problem? (eye roll)

So a machine can do machine stuff for as long as there is a willingness to repair.

door handles that break because theyre frozen and some ape tugs on them like its their pecker and breaks it arent problems. theyre actively destroyed. a door handle that just decides fuck you i dont wanna and you have to pay a thousand bucks to fix it is very different.

Yeah, this is one of the reasons I have shied away from Teslas. Things like this, and the X’s gull wing doors, make something simple/reliable/cheap to produce (a door) to be heavy, complicated, and expensive. 

Jesus christ. And you still have one of the least desirable generation F150's out there lol. I would have stopped after the first trans.

The door handle thing seems so absurd to me. It’s a part that has pretty much never had any failure issues in the history of the automobile (not counting mechanism stuff like the internal door pull), and they’ve managed to make it unreliable and heinously expensive to replace.

My 300,000 mile 05 f150 5.4

The goal is to avoid constantly charging the chemistry to 100% and having it hold there in your garage, waiting for you to drive. If you’re actually going to use it (i.e., you know you’re driving 550 miles the next day), it’s not a big deal to take it to 100 and then use it. In lithium ions, both charge extremes and…

Tesla recommends not charging above 90% unless leaving immediately after charging to preserve battery life. It is a characteristic of the LiIon battery technology. Most charge to 80% because we don’t need more than that anyway unless on a road trip.

Ford’s F-series has been the best selling vehicle in America for literally decades. 

Your snark sounds clever, but you know it is BS. The average new car price in the US in 2020 was $37k - $40k, depending on the source that I found. I couldn’t find the median price, which would be a better measure and likely a lower price than that.

If I had loaned you my Model Y and you took it out four-wheeling in the desert, we’d be having words when you brought it back.

Tell that to every joker in a King Ranch