Where do you live I already drive a model three. It has different cells than the model s
Sent from my iPad > On Sep 9, 2018, at 8:04 PM, mark hanson via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Willie etc, > > > > It's hard to find actual published Tesla battery failure numbers since Tesla > sends internal field service guys "Tesla Rangers" out to your house to > replace any bad cells that the car radios help for. When I was at a EV race > about 5 years ago, I asked three Tesla owners if they had any Tesla Rangers > come out to their homes in the past year for battery issues. All three > raised their hands. While this business model of impeccable field service > may work for high priced vehicles/wealthy customers, I don't see how it can > be *sustained* for lower priced Model-3's (set to come out next year). > > > > Best Regards, > > Mark in Roanoke VA > > > > Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2018 06:24:04 -0500 > > From: Willie <[email protected]> > > > >> On 09/08/2018 09:38 PM, Peri Hartman via EV wrote: >> >> Well, does anyone have actual numbers regarding failures of Teslas? > >> Overall, they've been out long enough that "we" should know if there are > >> reliability problems or not. On my part, I have not heard of any > >> widespread Tesla failure. What reliability problems is C.S. referring to? > > > > Anecdotal, but I know of quite of few Ss that have had their batteries > > replaced/repaired in warranty. On my ~130k mile 2013 S, the battery was > > recently changed. There was no real obvious issue but the Tesla service > > people said it should be changed. Range was still above 90% of original > > and I had not complained of range loss; I considered the loss > > reasonable. I would guess 30-50% of Tesla with more than 100k miles > > have had their batteries replaced. Probably all under warranty; I have > > heard of no one who had to buy a battery. Fact is, cost of replacement > > in generally unknown. It seems Tesla is not replacing with new > > batteries. In some cases they install a loaner battery while the faulty > > battery is being refurbished. In other cases they replace with a > > refurbished battery. I assume the refurbishment involves replacing a > > smallish number of bad cells. > > > > Much in contrast to Nissan, the battery replacements are painless; as > > mentioned, I did not even know I had a battery problem but Tesla was > > eager to make it right. Nissan refuses to replace obviously bad batteries. > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20180909/9d4160c3/attachment.html> > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
