Tesla Battery Gossip cut n paste
As Florida residents fled Hurricane Irma over the weekend, some Tesla owners got a little surprise from the auto maker to help them get out of the danger zone. On Saturday, Tesla began pushing a so...
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Bumpyroad wrote:JaxDad wrote:
Can you explain how you think Ford would have a greater exposure for warranty costs or claims by giving you a 1,000 mile range tank instead of a 500 mile range tank?
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I suppose this made sense when you typed it????????
bumpy
I did exactly that, in the second sentence.
Tesla gives a warranty on the (very expensive) battery. The rigorously you work that battery the more likely there is to be an issue that Tesla needs to fix, for free likely.
This is a pretty straightforward concept that is well know to the vast majority of the RV crowd, run your batteries to 6 volts a few times and see how long they last.
On the other hand the chances of Ford needing to make a warranty repair to a gas tank based on how far you drive is pretty remote, even if its capacity were doubled.
