400,000 Miles In A Tesla Model S - Was It Worth The Price Of Admission?

Tesloop, a Tesla-only intercity shuttle service for Southern California commuters, has reached another milestone with its Model S 90D. In a recent announcement, the company revealed that their Model S, dubbed eHawk, has passed the 400,000-mile mark, making it as one of the highest mileage Teslas in the world today.

eHawk entered service on July 2015, driving from city to city in Southern California and Nevada. By February 2016, the Model S 90D had logged its first 100,000 miles, and by August that year, the full-sized family sedan passed the 200,000-mile mark. In a recent blog post, Tesloop stated that roughly 90% of eHawk’s trips were driven using Autopilot, with Pilots (as the company refers to its drivers) only taking over active driving duties when needed. Tesloop’s Model S 90D currently travels an average of 17,000 miles per month. On the company’s recent post, Haydn Sonnad, Tesloop’s founder, expressed his optimism for the coming years.

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TomM - 7/17/2018 5:06:06 PM

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Gee - Volvo advertised like that for YEARS - showing their cars lasted - and Today - the truck manufacturers take turns claiming which of their trucks last the longest.

Of course - these are non-statistical examples that have no meaning

mre30 - 7/18/2018 10:40:43 AM

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Any car can last (especially a 4-year old one) if the owner plows money back into it to repair the components that break.

Most people choose not to go that route because at some point, it becomes cheaper to just get a new one (or even better a three-year old one with very low miles and a CPO warranty which is virtually a new car at 50% of the price).

However, if someone chooses to ignore economics, any car can likely be kept on the road indefinitely given an unlimited expenditure of funds, so this is meaningless.

A more accurate statistic would be if we revisited this situation a year or two after Tesla goes out of business and he says that "my Tesla now has 800,000 miles on it and it has miraculously not needed any parts or repairs since Tesla went t**sup two years ago. That would be amazing, but that is not what they are saying.

mre30 - 7/18/2018 10:42:39 AM

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...also Tesla lost money on this guy because it sounds like they spent about $50,000 of their own (or more accurately, shareholders) money keeping him on the road to make this silly PR stunt work.

SanJoseDriver - 7/22/2018 2:43:40 AM

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How is this an advertisement? This is a Tesla customer sharing their story.

qwertyfla1 - 7/18/2018 3:45:50 PM

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Doesn't commercial use (car service) void the warranty?

SanJoseDriver - 7/22/2018 2:44:25 AM

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It does, but not on the older cars. That means Tesloop is stuck using older Model S/X vehicles.