1.2-Million-Mile Tesla Model S Has Gone Through 13 Motors And Three Battery Pack Replacements

[Pack Rat]

In the U.S., most people typically drive less than 20,000 miles in a year. Germany’s Hansjörg von Gemmingen-Hornberg, however, drives well over 100,000 miles a year – and in a Tesla Model S. As InsideEVs reports, his 2014 Model S has officially crossed the million-mile mark, and currently sitting with just under 1.2 million miles on the odometer. Which, by any standard, is a lot of miles, especially for an electric car.

If you do the math, that’s more than 130,000 miles of driving every year, so it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that he’s no longer on the original motor or battery pack. In fact, the rear motor has been replaced 13 times, and the car is now on its fourth battery pack. Doing a little more math, that works out to one battery pack every 300,000 miles or so, which really isn’t bad. The engines in most gas-powered cars often fail before they hit the 300,000-mile mark.

 

[Flawless]

The batteries are suppose to last about 10 years so for an average person driving 12k miles a year this sounds about right. I wonder if he calculated all the time he had to wait in the car at a charging station.

 

[easy_b]

I told you guys when Toyota jumping into the game everything is gonna change

 

[ny1800]

They gotta be sponsoring him or sumtin for dude to go through all them engines and battery packs. Both the components are obviously not cheap. Their battery packs are heavy af too.

 

[totto]

how much are the battery packs?

 

[darth frosty]

Tesla recalls nearly all vehicles sold in US to fix system that monitors drivers using Autopilot


Israel-Hamas war
Hunter Biden
Tesla recall
Meteor shower
Gibson returns to Knicks
BUSINESS
Tesla recalls nearly all vehicles sold in US to fix system that monitors drivers using Autopilot
Tesla is recalling nearly all vehicles sold in the U.S., more than 2 million, to fix a defective system that’s supposed to ensure drivers are paying attention when using Autopilot. (Dec. 13) (AP video by Haven Daley)

Read More
Photos
3
BY TOM KRISHER
Updated 7:40 PM EST, December 13, 2023
Share
DETROIT (AP) — Tesla is recalling nearly all vehicles sold in the U.S., more than 2 million, to update software and fix a defective system that’s supposed to ensure drivers are paying attention when using Autopilot.

Documents posted Wednesday by U.S. safety regulators say the update will increase warnings and alerts to drivers and even limit the areas where basic versions of Autopilot can operate.

The recall comes after a two-year investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration into a series of crashes that happened while the Autopilot partially automated driving system was in use. Some were deadly.