Just clicked 100,000kms on my S, and while my warrantee ran out same time last year as it's a 2014-5 car. Here is my experience and along with few others with the same cars. 1. Once the cars run out of warrantee, all little kinks start to appear, IE for me the 3G gets really slow, the updates firmware now laggs a bit with the Screen and the system, both headlight bulb went out, airbag sensor has its bits broken off (I don't even know how that's possible). 2. I had a motor replacement (under warrantee), the battery (real usage) i can feel is only about 70% of when it was new. I believe the 85kw battery pack actually only has about 79 usable kwh, however, now I only get about 60kwh, and Tesla says it's totally fine. 3. Charging dock on the car is somehow broke (literally the week after warrantee expired), and now I can't charge the car up at any other charging station but Teslas, and even then Tesla can't absolutely confirm if replacing that part (which cost about 6k AUD) will completely fix the problem, and if it doesn't they will need to replace the charging docking station as a whole, which will run a coll 10k AUD all together. Oh, I also have a broken Battery Warming Fuse (coincidentally also happened 2-3 weeks after warrantee expired), which costed a cool 6k AUD) I still love the car, but I can't help to think this is the sad reality of Electric cars. doesn't matter how the marketing is on they can go on forever, reality is they will try and force you to upgrade (with a massive depreciation) after 4 years, parts replacements are absolutely absurd, and in time, the software upgrade won't be serviced on the older cars. Bit like iPhones on Wheels hahahaha.
Today at a misty Robertson, I was watching a red model S pull out of driveway and for a second green laser light flashed out from what appeared to be the dash on the drivers side, any idea what thats for?
Geez https://thedriven.io/2020/01/20/norway-horrified-as-new-rates-make-ev-charging-prices-higher-than-petrol/
Reminds me of when I was challenged to a drag by a pretty hotted up A9/X clone in the 80"s; I was in a GT4. I didn't accept, but I did point out that when the race was over, he'd be driving home in a Holden, and I'd be driving home in a Ferrari. I'd rather drive home in the Porsche.
https://www.carsales.com.au/editorial/details/tesla-becomes-most-valuable-car-maker-in-the-world-122536/
"Internal sales numbers obtained by carsales.com.au show Tesla sold 3793 vehicles in 2019, boosting its overall sales to 7071 since officially launching with the Roadster in 2012."
