Sadly, if you are not a company with a name like Tesloop, but a normal user, the issue is not cost of service but time wasted on waiting for it. Unlike a real car, teslas can only be serviced by tesla...so....<p><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeldunne/2016/10/31/my-first-annual-tesla-service-inspection-waiting-is-the-hardest-part/#4d44d3cd618d" rel="nofollow">https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeldunne/2016/10/31/my-firs...</a><p><a href="https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/03/07/repairing-my-tesla-model-s-has-been-an-utter-night.aspx" rel="nofollow">https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/03/07/repairing-my-tesla...</a><p><a href="http://www.autonews.com/article/20161113/RETAIL05/311149995/tesla-owners-plagued-by-service-delays" rel="nofollow">http://www.autonews.com/article/20161113/RETAIL05/311149995/...</a><p><a href="http://insideevs.com/need-your-tesla-model-s-or-x-serviced-be-prepared-for-a-wait/" rel="nofollow">http://insideevs.com/need-your-tesla-model-s-or-x-serviced-b...</a><p><a href="http://autoweek.com/article/tesla/tesla-growing-pains-owners-suffer-long-service-waits" rel="nofollow">http://autoweek.com/article/tesla/tesla-growing-pains-owners...</a><p><a href="http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1107894_waits-for-tesla-service-get-longer-as-more-electric-cars-are-sold" rel="nofollow">http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1107894_waits-for-tesla-...</a><p>Oh, and forget doing your own maintenance or buying parts to do so. No such luck - Unlike a real car manufacturer, Tesla won't sell them to you.<p>Want a real electric car with real support? Buy a Chevy Bolt, maybe?
Neat.<p>>During the first 300,000 miles the total combined maintenance and fuel costs of the Tesla Model S were $10,492, with a total of 12 days in the shop. Had this been an Mercedes S class, the scheduled routine maintenance and fuel would have been $86,000 ($52,000 maintenance and $36,000* fuel) with 112 days of servicing, or for a Lincoln Town Car $70k,000 ($28,000 maintenance and $42,000<i></i> fuel) with around 100 days of servicing.<p>Not sure why they mention the fuel cost of these cars without citing the electricity cost of the Tesla. It does make the numbers bigger.
Reminds me of the argument made in <a href="https://shift.newco.co/this-is-how-big-oil-will-die-38b843bd4fe0" rel="nofollow">https://shift.newco.co/this-is-how-big-oil-will-die-38b843bd...</a> a few months ago:<p>Gas powered vehicles require many more (and more complex) parts, which inevitably need to be replaced throughout the lifespan of the car. There's a big incentive for services like lyft, uber, and future autonomous driving companies to move to electric vehicles because they have much fewer moving parts, and therefore are cheaper to maintain on a per-mile basis.
I am surprised people are trying to poke holes in this article. You're arguing with data. This isn't an extrapolation or a estimate, this is numbers based on actual use. You can say you don't think it will work like this for you, or you don't think Tesla has good service, but clearly for at least one set of people they are getting a massive ROI by buying Tesla's.
So they saved a bunch of money by putting a ton of miles on before age related problems started showing up. In other news the sky is blue.<p>It's component deterioration from age that really gets you on a luxury car. Seat motors fail, wiring harnesses deteriorate, etc.<p>It's also worth mentioning that they didn't crash one. With enough road hours eventually it will happen. The vehicles that can be serviced by a normal shop will be cheaper to repair.<p>The lack of downtime is very impressive but if it's really that much cheaper than running a fleet of town cars then why do they need to twist the numbers?
> "the total combined maintenance and fuel costs of the Tesla Model S were $10,492 [...] of these costs, $6,900 was scheduled maintenance and $3500 was headlight damage"<p>So the fuel costs are only $92? (10,492 - 6,900 - 3,500)
To me, no part of that article was that surprising (impressive nonetheless) except for the $6500 headlight repair from "driving through deep water".<p>Wonder how exactly that happened, and what damage was caused to the car.
Interesting podcast on Tesloop [0]. A youngling like him starting the company with his dad running it.<p>[0] <a href="https://gimletmedia.com/episode/tesloop-s02-ep11/" rel="nofollow">https://gimletmedia.com/episode/tesloop-s02-ep11/</a>