How much does maintenance cost on a Tesla Electric Vehicle? 

Absolutely! Thought it was obvious that if 300k was that easy a million is going to be cake! 😉

And the original battery, contrary to a lot of FUD these days…

What we all want to know is how much of his battery capacity is still left after 300k miles of driving. How much range has he lost over those miles?

It's shown that with normal care, batteries should level off around 80% +/- 5% in the long term unless there is a major failure (sort of like an ICE car blowing some critical part in the engine and needing a rebuild). If the range works with your regular drive at 80% you can drive it for a very long time.

I agree! My first set of tires lasted me about a year and a half because every start was a jackrabbit start. After paying $1600 for a set of Michelin CrossClimate SUVs I've become a bit more conservative on the jackrabbit starts and the tires look great even after 30,000 miles.

@@barrygreen9967 agreed! Same scenario for me.

Dude, Of course driving hard is gonna wear down the tires faster on any car. And with Tesla‘s addictive instant hard torque that will kill tread quicker. But to your comment, a BMW 3 series weighs between 3100 pounds to 3600 pounds depending on trim. Model 3 weighs 3500-4000, single vs dual motors. Tesla is heavier. When you COMBINE acceleration or breaking or corners on a heavier car, that COMPOUNDS the treadwear kill factor.

@@rono33 if you look up "BMW 3 series weight" they can weigh up to 4,138 pounds

@@teslasnek I did look it up that’s where I got my numbers. Maybe the google source was wrong. But anyway I used to have a 3 series a few years ago and tires on that car wear quickly too, which still shows that the extra heft can add to tire wear too. Just sayin. (Another consideration is that the model three performance comes with very soft performance tires, as do certain BMW models) so judging treadwear on those particular models is kind of fruitless on such soft rubber

There is no Mike and nobody drove $300K in 4 years that he knows of. His channel name is Tesla and he's here to show plus points only over a gas car. My friend had to replace his tires at 30K kms so at 300K you would go through around 10 sets of changes. And there a plenty of people who have had to change battery for $10K at $100K kms. I still think EV is cheaper than gas but not as much as all these people saying. Besides, we don't have a lot of cars that hit 200K+ kms so we will see in future. And not sure if charging costs are going to increase with the increased demand of EV owners

Yeah your right the torque from the electric motors also do wear down the tires as well!

If you’re talking about the main battery pack for the vehicle, I know many people that are over 300,000 miles that have not changed their battery pack

I think you may have misunderstood what he was trying to say with the brake pads he was dividing 300k miles by 15k miles and only adding the cost of brake pads not the rotors or callipers or labor. So 300k miles divided by 15,000 miles is 20. Multiply $30 which is kind of on the low end for brake pads by 20 and you arrive at the $600 he was referencing. You can still argue that most brakes last 50k to 60k miles even in that scenario when you add in the cost of rotors, pad and labor for one to two brake jobs that's well above the $600 he used in his calculation so if he uses your example six brake changes at 60,000 miles with just an unheard of cost for a shop to do them of $300 would make the example even worse for ice vehicles as this would be 3 times more than Raj used in his example.

@@barrygreen9967 Ok, makes sense

This! The windshield in the Model 3 seems to crack from the slightest highway pebble tossed up. I keep one of those resin glue kits in the car now just for this reason.

Ooof yeah glass repair can get expensive and it’s truly luck of the draw. But glad all the other belts, oils and fluids we no longer have to do!

He didn't include Battery Replacement Cost for average users after 100K miles (Out of Warranty). It easily costs $7K to $15K.

@@warofhero well I hear you but the EV batteries don’t die after 100,000 miles. If they are maintained via proper charging cycles they can last hundreds of thousands of miles. Just like gas engines if properly maintained can last hundreds of thousands of miles. But if you’re automatically going to factor in replacing a battery just because it passes 100,000 miles then you must also factor in replacing a gas engine just because it past 100,000 miles and it’s also out of warranty. However you slice it it’s not a perfect comparison I thought he left a couple of these important pieces of info unchecked regardless of which side of the argument one is on.

Well I wanted to mainly focus on maintenance in this video but Mike did say that his 100% is 249 miles

@@TeslaRaj That would make a good video. It's something non EV geeks worry about as they assume EVs are like cell phones and the batteries last only a few years.

@@beachcrow agreed that this question is one that pops up almost every time. I respond with that’s shouldn’t be the concern. The concern would be better focused on the fact newer battery tech is coming out often(2018, 2020,2021,2022) there are like 4 diff kinda of battery tech out there between those years.

It is very Abnormal to change your Tesla's battery (the run that makes you car go vs the 12 volt battery that runs lights, etc) during the life of the car. People tend to want to change cars hundreds of thousands of miles before the battery needs to be replace. As for how much range loss their is on a Tesla battery, it's about 1.5% per 100,000 miles vs something like an original Nissan Leaf which was about 40% range loss. Most often the mention of weight of electric cars is the electric vs the lightest weight gas cars and not an equivalent gas car and that is MUCH closer than people that hate electric cars wants to admit. Which is why this guy with the Model 3 had to change his tires a lot less often than would be expected if you took the WRONG figures and calculated how anti-Tesla/anti-electric vehicle people TRY to tell you. Are their people that have had to change their batteries in a Tesla (the ones that drive the car)? YES, ABSOLUTELY!!! Wait a minute, didn't I just say that batteries --usually-- last for hundreds of thousands of miles??? Junk for for electric cars. The faster that you fill up your batteries in an electric car the worse it is for the batteries. Which is why you only want to charge up your Tesla (or other) electric vehicle when you NEED to like on trips and not every time you need to "fill up" the batteries. Eet at McDonalds every meal your whole life and you won't have the same life expectancy that you do if you eat "reasonably" well. So ... only charge up at a Tesla Supercharger when you NEED to. While we're at it, do you gorge with every meal? My guess is that if you do you probably weigh (literally) as much as a car. Charging your electric vehicle's batteries to 100% all the time is just as bad for them. What you SHOULD do is charge them around 80% unless you NEED the longer range like you are going on vacation or something. EVEN THEN you really don't need to charge your Tesla (or other electric vehicle) up to 100%. How often are you going to drive for approximately 300 miles at a time? All the time? My guess is never. All your need to charge your battery up to is how long you are ACTUALLY going to drive, plus maybe 15% due to variation in altitude to make sure you make it to your next location. It only takes about 15 minutes to charge your Tesla 150 miles of range, assuming that the beginning and ending percentage ends up less than 80%. What my wife and I do is go get food, either at the grocery store or ... a fast food place, and then take our Tesla to a Tesla Supercharger and charge for maybe 20 minutes (that buffer because of altitude or excessive heat or cold which reduces range) which will gives us more than enough range until the next time we need to stop for a potty/food/get out and stretch for the sake of your health break from driving. Oh, and note that most Tesla Superchargers are within easy walking distance of places to go get something to eat. So you can take your car to the charger and start charging it and THEN go get your food. Just don't take too long because once your Tesla had totally charged up (unless there are a lot of cars charging at that location and then Tesla might limit you to charging to 80% if you want more or not) they will start charging you for taking up the charging space making it so that other people can't use that charging port. My wife and I bought our Tesla Model Y long range when I was 59 and she was a few years older than me (which she still is of course) and I FULLY expect this Model Y to last for the rest of my driving life and beyond. Hopefully (though I'm not counting on it) Tesla Full Self Driving will get past the beta stage before I have the ability to get into a car (not to drive but get into one at all) so that I can experience the joy of telling the car I want to go to X and it drives me there all on its own without me having to have me or anyone else behind the steering wheel. Hopefully this answers more of your questions.

Or had to service the heat pump/ac freon gas

Too bad the accelerator pedals don't work, huh?

@@deekay2 have I missed a news story or are you saying that 0 to 60 in less than 2 seconds is slow?

@@Mephistopheles111 The last time I looked, all vehicles have an accelerator pedal that you can variably control with your left foot in the United States or are you saying that Tesla's only have an on/off button for acceleration?

@@deekay2 lol. Sorry, I didn't pick up on what you were saying 😁. In my 1st summer season I burned through a set of all seasons and that was with driving almost exclusively on highways. After that I switched to chill mode and I do get better tire usage but they do scrub fast.

It’s still lasting on original main battery. His 100% charge gives him 248 miles from the original 310.

Who cares

@@TeslaRaj WOW. Still holds 80% charge and this is on the older battery tech. Can’t wait for the 4680 batteries. Thank you again.

Curious

Doh! Damn good eye. I did forget them. Nothing slips by you guys. Yeah I too I’m 50k miles haven’t done anything. Feels weird but oh so right!

Holy smokes!

@@TeslaRaj Ever heard of "Drivyn"?

You should sell the car after 120K miles then use the money and buy the new Tesla with tax credit. It is very expensive to replace battery.

@@warofhero Did you even watch the video? Talked about a guy with a Tesla Model 3 just like my 2019 that has over 300,000 miles on it and hasn't needed the battery replaced yet lol 😄

Why would anyone add a cost for something they are not replacing. Only an idiot would add the cost of a battery pack to the total cost of ownership. Why would an owner of a Tesla do that when on the flip side the requirement for an Ice vehicle to factor in the cost of an engine and transmission?

As indicated, the owner of the vehicle, after 300k miles, is still using his original batteries and gets more than 80 percent of the original capacity. And after 300k miles, an ICE vehicle would likely be on its second engine and transmission if not third, most people don't keep their cars at that point because with 20k moving parts that platform is too high maintenance to hang on to. EVs only have 20 moving parts by comparison, and operate at significantly lower temperature variances (under 200f vs around 2900f in a combustion platform), which in turn makes it easier to design them around self contained/closed loop systems, which leads to much longer lasting lubricants and such.

FUD much? Can we add in the environmental degradation from ICE car tailpipes as well?

Why would it need to be aligned if you don’t hit curbs?

Whoa whoa whoa 🤯 i need a minute to digest this hack you just informed me on.

Haha yes!!! It works!! I told my club about it TOSJV. Feel free to ask any questions! I want to spread the word! $1500 set of tires for teslas should be a thing of the past!

Makes cost of ownership an even more compelling argument!

Love this! Thanks.

Appreciate that Travis!

Hey now! Lol i have seen some Japanese gas cars getting into the 300-400,000 range

I have a Tesla and a Tundra. Tundra has 300k miles and still no startup smoke. Runs as strong as ever.

@@aussie2uGA 300k miles in a tundra is like $60k in gas lol

Congrats and many more zero maintenance years ahead!

Offf yeah curbrash is the WORST! I have anxiety every time I’m parking or navigating near curbs! But usually guys can fix it at your house for about 100-150

There are a lot of places that will fix crub rash and bent rims. Fyi