Battery management software may have improved; Teslas auto-update over the air.
Perhaps the battery technology and/or chemistry is also better than it was in 2012. On Fri, Jan 14, 2022, at 8:14 PM, OK Don via Mercedes wrote: > Indeed! He is getting a lot of miles out of the latest battery pack though > - wonder what's different? > > On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 7:13 PM Rick Knoble via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >> Sounds like a virtue signaling money pit to me. >> >> >> Rick >> >> From: mercedes@okiebenz.com >> Sent: January 14, 2022 7:01 PM >> To: Mercedes@okiebenz.com >> Reply-to: mercedes@okiebenz.com >> Cc: okd...@gmail.com >> Subject: [MBZ] High mileage Tesla >> >> *One Tesla Model S Has Gone Nearly 1 Million Miles And Needed SomeMajor >> Repairs*epairs >> A Tesla owner in Germany may just have the record for highest-mileage Model >> S in the world. He recently rolled over 1.5 million kilometers (932,256 >> freedom miles if you live in the U.S.) in his Model S P85. >> >> Getting to this number was no cheap feat for the owner. It’s been through >> quite a number of parts >> < >> https://www.carscoops.com/2022/01/this-original-tesla-model-s-performance-model-is-nearing-1000000-miles/ >> > >> in >> its lifetime. The owner, Hansjörg von Gemmingen-Hornberg says the car is on >> at least its third battery. The first was replaced under warranty at about >> 180,000 miles. The second was replaced after about 93,000 additional miles >> before the third battery was installed. So far, the Model S has done more >> than 621,000 miles on that third battery. >> >> That isn’t all. The car also needed four drive motors to reach over 900,000 >> miles. The P85 has only one drive motor on the real axle. That means three >> different drive motors have failed. >> >> But how has this Tesla racked up so many miles? Well, the owner uses it as >> a taxi. He also chronicles his journeys on his very-German Twitter account >> < >> https://twitter.com/gem8mingen?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor >> > >> . >> >> #NeuesProfilbild >> <https://twitter.com/hashtag/NeuesProfilbild?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw> >> pic.twitter.com/wEsk1ZW3yC <https://t.co/wEsk1ZW3yC> >> — Hansjörg von Gemmingen - Hornberg (@gem8mingen) January 6, 2022 >> < >> https://twitter.com/gem8mingen/status/1479108423685840905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw >> > >> >> According to InsideEVs, he reached the 900,000-kilometer (559,0000 mile) >> mark in July 2019. That means he has averaged about 150,000 miles annually >> since then. That works out to over 400 miles a day packing onto this >> Tesla’s odometer. >> >> There are a few high-milage Model S’s trolling around the world right now, >> like this 425,000 mile example >> < >> https://jalopnik.com/heres-how-a-425-000-mile-tesla-model-s-has-held-up-1848286496 >> >. >> But it’s safe to say the German car blows this one out of the water. >> >> The owner has stayed mum on exactly how much the repairs have cost over the >> life of his Model S – perhaps because it would make no logical sense to >> pour this money into a car to keep it going, or perhaps because it isn’t >> our business. >> >> So, while we may not know how much he’s paying for the privilege of driving >> a Model S nearly a million miles in less than ten years, we will certainly >> be able to follow along on his Twitter account >> < >> https://twitter.com/gem8mingen?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor >> > >> . >> >> -- >> OK Don >> >> "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to >> pause and reflect." Mark Twain >> >> “Basic research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I am doing.” >> Wernher >> Von Braun >> 2013 F150, 18 mpg >> 2017 Subaru Legacy, 30 mpg >> 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph! >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> > > -- > OK Don > > "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to > pause and reflect." Mark Twain > > “Basic research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I am doing.” Wernher > Von Braun > 2013 F150, 18 mpg > 2017 Subaru Legacy, 30 mpg > 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph! > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
