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Originally Posted by AgentTripleX
Battery pack is supposed to last 5 years or 100k miles. It doesn't just stop working though. The range that you can travel will shorten and that's when the recommend replacement. Kind of like a laptop battery. Not sure on the cost. I know that the technologies keep changing and that over the past 5 years they have come down. I do see that gas keeps getting higher. I'm driving 600 miles a week for work alone. Then there's the pleasure driving and errands and misc stuff.  |
So you would kill it in 2.5 years. I know that the Tesla battery is 5 figures now I am sure that they will be cheaper by the time you would need one but your cost of ownership just took a big hit.
I don't think your usage pattern is typical for a Tesla customer.