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by GaryNumanVevo 911 days ago
My wife and I would play a game while walking by the supercharger at our local Target in Sunnyvale: see how many Teslas were driving on nearly bald tires.

Not sure if it's a "tech people not realizing you need to buy new tires" or maybe they aren't used to how fast tires wear down on heavier EVs.

Inevitably when it finally rained in the Bay Area, you'll see at least one Tesla smashed into the guide rail on the 101 up to SF.

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Woah, no wonder Tesla owners are driving on bare tires, the official website says that you'd only need to replace them every 6 years [1]. Before we sold our Model X it would eat through tires, we'd have to replace them every 15k miles. Our other cars could keep tires for at least 30k.

[1] - https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modelx/en_us/GUID-94F63B1...