I don’t really know the details or circumstances or if that number is even accurate, but a contributing factor could be that they’re running out of new-old-stock first gen motors, and maybe some of the units are refurbs of refurbs at this point

Agreed, pedal misapplication incidents are nearly impossible if one is a left foot braker. But such a slim minority actually drive this way, that it’s safe to assume that Alan Ruck is an “ordinary” right foot braker, and may have lost track of which pedal his right foot was over. Especially with an EV where you don’t…

Under most circumstances I’d agree with you, but he was already stopped, meaning his foot was on the brake pedal, and for this to happen as a “mistake” he would have to remove his foot from the brake and deliberately step on the accelerator

Because you can’t just throw a new and improved motor from a newer generation of a vehicle into an older generation. For example you can’t take a Hellcat engine and toss it into a 2010 Charger without a lot of aftermarket work.

rental company is showing major losses on its EV rental program this year simply because of the tanking residual values of its held stock of cars.

To be fair, it was their first car designed from scratch, and probably their first motors designed from scratch. This was an early adopter product only a few years after this brand new car company barely survived The Great Recession and running on a completely new technology stack for the industry.

I would guess they might be using new-old-stock or even refurb units for the motor replacements. This 14 year old Model S is definitely not using the same motors as the newer generations of Model S. I would guess they were never designed to be driven for 8 hours a day, every day, for a full decade. Especially…

Update, it’s been about 2 years, and he’s added about 300,000 more miles to that latest battery pack!

Not mentioned in this article but previously reported by Jalopnik in 2022 (https://jalopnik.com/one-tesla-model-s-has-gone-nearly-1-million-miles-and-n-1848362945),

It’s a Tesla article on Jalopnik. That means the headline is complete BS. Or the author’s completely misunderstanding of the quotation

Might even be the same chassis, though maybe they just did a good job proportioning it the same despite there being a larger (though still small) battery pack

Toyota GR Yaris.

Fiat stopped selling the 500/500e in the US in 2019. They did start delivering the 2nd gen 500e in Europe a couple years ago but it didn’t make it to the US yet.

From this article:

RE: Fiat 500e

It has worked out great for Tesla, and presumably has been working fine for Rivian, Lucid, etc as well. Buying from a dealership, you’ve got a lot of salespeople, loan office, receptionist, etc salaries you have to pay for on top of what you’re paying to the manufacturer to cover their costs, so if course a dealer…

Sounds like MSRP was just set incorrectly if they could only be sold for under it. Basically artificially making people think they’re getting a deal, like when an item is perpetually “on sale” at a store.

Very much in support of this.

The pandemic was definitely rough on prices but prices ended up way better after it.

One would think this has more to do with the pandemic artificially raising used car prices to in come cases more than new car prices.