From an article published in Electrek November 2019
At our December 2020 meeting a member asked how long a battery is expected to last. This is an article from a year ago, describing one man’s obsession for driving his 2013 Model S.
A Tesla owner has put over 1 million km (621,000 miles) on a Model S for the first time and he explains his experience in a video interview.
UPDATE: Gemmingen has now clocked 750,000 miles!
Link to article
Hansjörg Gemmingen from Germany is the maniac (with all due respect) who has put so much mileage on his 2013 Model S P85. He considers driving a hobby and he has put 600 km a day on the car on average.
The longtime Tesla owner has actually driven even more electric miles since he also put over 600,000 km on a Tesla Roadster, but back to the Model S.
How is it holding up?
We have previously reported on high mileage Tesla vehicles and they are generally performing very well aside from early problems with the drive unit that Tesla ended up fixing later.
Gemmingen’s Model S is no exception.
Over the course of 1 million km (621,000 miles), it had 2 battery packs and 3 drive unit replacements.
The good news is that the most recent battery pack is going on almost half a million kilometers (310,000 miles) with very little battery degradation.
Tesla also finally figure out the problem that would cause issues to the drive unit in early Model S vehicles and now, Gemmingen’s latest drive unit has over 680,000 km on it.
It will be interesting to see how far he can push those and we should get a chance to see because Gemmingen says that he wants to put 1 million miles (not kilometers) on his Model S:
Most problems Gemmingen had with is car were covered under the warranty and therefore, he had very minimal repair and maintenance cost over those 1 million km – aside from tires of course.
The website below is in need of updating, but shows there are many Tesla vehicles with multiple 1000’s of miles on the clock.
https://sites.google.com/view/teslamiles
