$25,000 for a two year old $47,000 car with 70,000 miles already on it may not be that great a deal. A brand new one is that price so you're basically paying 31.5 cents a mile to buy the newer ...
Miles are irrelevant, they’ll last forever (based on fleet powertrain reliability stats). It’s a great deal if you’re going to drive it until it dies and you need mobility, assuming for whatever reason you don’t qualify for incentives or credits that would get a new one to the used price.
(have over 200k miles collectively on three Teslas)
Not my experience in a 2018 S and a 2019 X. Wiper fluid, tires, brake fluid, air filters are the only work done, over 100k miles on both. Paid inspections done at ~100k miles to confirm for proactive replacement if needed. Intend to operate them until the powertrain fails.
I earn too much to receive any incentives, so keeping an eye on the used market to buy another Tesla or two (preferably Ys, but would take a 3).
Edit: I enjoy spirited driving, and do so frequently on roads of many different quality across the eastern US and Midwest.
I have a 266k mile 04 4Runner, a 250k mile 04 F250, and a 188k mile 13 Chevy Volt.
'Forever' is starting to be 350k miles in crowds that don't buy new vehicles.
100,000 miles is essentially the bare minimum I'd expect from a car. I enjoy spirited driving as well (rumbly subie owner) and I'm over 100,000 miles and only had to replace wear items.
You must be very careful driver then. And the roads must be very good around you. I am pretty sure, I will need to replace something in suspension of my model Y before 60000 miles.
Almost every car my family owns is over 200k miles, and we recently got rid of a 290k mile Volvo S80. I do all the work on all of our cars, and I've never had to replace a wheel bearing.
If a dealership's marketing says they last 100k, you can be certain they'll go 200k. They don't call them stealerships for nothing.
I'm as good of a mechanic as a diy gets. I've rebuilt entire auto transmissions instead of just sticking in another unit. I've regearied rear ends (which did get interior bearings while there). I do head gaskets as favors to friends.
I'm fairly certain all of my 200k+ mile vehicles have had perfectly safe and functional bearings.
That's some great luck. 4 corners * 6+ cars between mine and parents * 200k each. Only advantage I guess could be that it's in California without rust or salt splashing everywhere.
> In theory, wheel bearings could last as long as your Tesla. Unlike oil changes or tire rotations, there’s no standard maintenance schedule for replacing them.
I do not disagree that inspections should be done to ensure things that move between motor and road are in good repair, but all vehicles in the used car market experience this. EVs have less moving parts, less than 20 typically for propulsion, leading to higher reliability.
When was the last time you had your wheel bearings inspected? Probably never. You know when it’s time to replace them when they fail.
Vehicles do occasionally need parts replaced. This does not diminish that these vehicles will last hundreds of thousands of miles cost effectively. The nuance is clear, or so I assumed. Replace parts as needed (either scheduled maintenance or ad hoc), but the powertrain will likely last the life of the vehicle, and that is the material cost concern of a vehicle.
> “It’s the complete opposite of what people feared when we first launched EVs—that the batteries would only last a short time,” he reflected.
> It’s clear that most EV batteries will outlast the vehicles they were installed in, and even then, they have a worthwhile second life before they need to be stripped down for recycling.
> “At the end of the vehicle’s life—15 or 20 years down the road—you take the battery out of the car, and it’s still healthy, with perhaps 60 or 70% of usable charge,” said Thomas.
-- Nissan executive Nic Thomas.
(and these are early gen battery pack designs that were, frankly, not very good compared to Tesla's)
(have over 200k miles collectively on three Teslas)