Featured Tesla exec tells it like it is

The DU issue has 8yr/unlimited mileage, but the door failing after the initial warranty on the falcon doors would be a different issue. So owners better pony up the expensive extended warranty so the door can be fixed for cheaper.

One reason Rav4EV owners are getting extended warranty. 4k for the heater, ouch. And if an owner tries to sell their Rav4EV after 3yr/36k initial warranty, their car value drops like a rock.

Guess one reason Toyota has been cracking down hard on out of state Rav4EV warranty sales for cheap.

 

Google drive train failure on Tesla and you will find much on it as well as a survey conducted on owners by Consumer Reports which concluded that 2/3 of Tesla's with 60,000 miles or less have had failure.

 

And your point is what - either all cars have issues on gen 1 and beyond? ... or that it bugs you that tesla customers feel satisfied regardless? Or that we should all go out and buy hydrogen cars? Or something else ... ?
Maybe hydrogen cars aren't so bad because other cars have their issues as well?
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And his point was that most of these "failures" we're simply an annoying noise, not a "failur" of the drivetrain.
Very few of those were actually an issue which caused the car to stop working.
He just wanted to make sure you understood that it wasn't a "failure" in the traditional sense.

 

what is tesla saying about this new ev start up in vegas? is there a thread here?

 

Re read my post, i highlited the words that are wrong.
Please stop posting inaccuracies, and pretending what I posed was wrong.

Two-Thirds of Earliest Tesla Drivetrains To Need Replacement In 60,000 Miles, Owner Data Suggests

Which says quite directly its not 2/3 of cars, its not that 2/3 go 60,000 miles (the part I wrote in my first clarification) but 2/3 of the cars produced in 2012 and 2013 will probably have a replacement in the first 60,000 miles. If Consumer reports reported what you said, then they are totally wrong also.

Most teslas where made in 2014 and 2015. There simply is not data on these cars as there isn't enough miles. There were design changes. Let's not pretend they all are making noise, as this rate is much lower than the cars produced before 2014. Tesla made 22,000 cars in 2013, 33,000 in 2014, and expects 50,000 in 2015. Your statement makes it sound like this affects most cars.

Very few experienced drive train failure. A large amount noise. The noise should not be there, but its not a failure. It doesn't mean people couldn't drive or had poor or unsafe performance.
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Exactly. Its not failure in any sense of the world. It is a waranty cost that tesla has to pay.