Not sure what the head bolt fix costs these days for the Northstar.

Did you see the words "Beyond Cars" at the top of the article?

Frame straightening is a thing. You cannot straighten a casting. A collision that would bend a front frame-rail on a traditional car can be repaired,  if the same collision cracks the casting, the car is almost certainly a write-off.

When considering buying one of these, just remember the widely believed fact that the fastest kind vehicle over any kind of terrain is a rental car.

In that case, is there a Chinese restaurant chain you prefer?

Yeah. This sounds like someone who jumped at the opportunity to buy a status symbol and didn’t do his due diligence.

Before we bought our Q4 e-Tron, I got quotes on a ton of different EVs.  ID.4, Ioniq 5, EV6, etc... And a Model Y.  The Model Y was the most expensive one to insure by far.  It was nearly double the cost of the ID.4 and Ioniq 5.

Repeatedly charging above 80% is not recommended. As is draining it to zero. 

Pandey says this is when it dawned on him why Hertz was trying to offload these EVs. “I realized why they were trying to get rid of those Teslas. If anything happens to a Tesla, then the bill is too high.”

Oh no, how dare people who drive cars... “us[e] all the range there is”? I fill my ICE cars’ gas tanks to the top, and refill when they’re down to about 10% capacity, and that’s just what you do with cars. If it’s considered “abuse” to do the same thing with a Tesla, well, that just means a Tesla isn’t really a…

The surprising thing to me is how bad fast charging is.

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Rich Rebuilds covers this topic in some of his videos. Sadly, Tesla have designed their cars in a way that if anything gets damaged, instead of repairing said damaged item, they will just send it to get recycled, and completely replace it. Compare that to an ICE vehicle, the power train is composed of many smaller…

aka, the LG and Samsung appliance approach.
Friends who had a 2yr old Samsung dishwasher at the time.
The drain pump died, but the repair company said Samsung changed the pump design already, and there were no replacements.
He was, however, able to jerry rig the wire harness of a Frigidaire pump into it that matched…

Part of it has to do with Tesla’s process. Traditional car makers finalize the build and lots of parts are made for these cars and they are kept in production for years. So finding the parts isn’t a huge issue. Tesla on the other hand uses an iterative approach, where they keep improving the cars or lowering…

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Fixed the headline for you

Glitchy, Damaged Nightmare would make an excellent title for a history of Tesla.

I’ve heard bodywork on Teslas is notoriously expensive, which I would imagine rental cars need quite a bit of. 

Why are Teslas so expensive to repair? Is it an EV thing, or Tesla-specific? (I have read that their ‘gigacasting’ process is cheaper up-front, but can make the cars harder to repair and maintain...)