The comments below about the reliability of Tesla I have heard from numerous people. The refusal of Nissan to take responsibility of problems is a personal experience of mine. Bob Keeland, PhD
On Sun, Sep 9, 2018, 3:49 PM Willie via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > > > 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. > _______________________________________________ > 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) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20180909/a610c35d/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)
