My experience getting a dedicated EV TOU 2 electric meter with SDGE

[Coronita]

[quote=spdrun]If anything, I thought the industry was going the other way. Mercedes used to have free roadside assistance for all of their cars in the US, no matter how old. Now you have to have had a dealer appointment and spent a minimum price to be “covered.”[/quote]

Depends on which manufacturer.

BMW and a lot of domestics are including free maintenance and japanese/korean cars are going toward free maintenance.

Mercedes removed the free maintenance. Audi removed the free maintenance, but you can buy a maintenance package for it for the 4 years. Ironically, VW includes free maintenance now when it didn’t use to.

Porsche never had free maintenance.
It’s a Porsche after all.

Tesla’s I don’t believe include free maintenance, but I don’t think there’s much to maintain anyway.At least that’s what I recall what the sales rep said when I talked to them. In 2012, I recall the rep said that there was a yearly maintenance required and I forget how much it was, nor do I remember if it was required or optional towards keeping your warranty…
But from what I recall, the cost of maintenance wasn’t much different from any other sort of luxury vehicle in this price range.

(For a real sticker shock…Try getting a transmission fluid flush an a Nissan GTR at tje 18k service interval.. Total service cost at a stealer can easily reach $1500)…..

Regardless, most things under “warranty” will be serviced, unless you just happen to be going to a bad stealership… What falls under “warranty” often times is subject to dealer interpretation. People I know have had their cars chipped with modified ECU and have been serviced under “warranty” while as some others that did nothing more than put a CAI on their car had dealers deny warranty claims even when the part(s) in question had nothing to do with the mod.

The deal is most dealers have every incentive to get a 5 star in their service rating for all the categories. Simply because a lot of vehicle allocation, preference,etc is determined partly from that these days….

[earlyretirement]

[quote=flu][quote=earlyretirement]Hey flu,

Hmm…well I’ve not heard of things being covered under “warranty” when there is impact and it’s probably the driver’s fault? It seemed to me that it was caused by impact of hitting a speed bump too fast or something. Just so I know….is this standard and covered under warranty with most car manufacturer?

As I recall, a few years ago my friend had something like this happen with his Mercedes and I remember they most certainly did NOT fix it for free. Is this the norm now?[/quote]

Oh, I didn’t realize the panel coming off was from a speed bump. But usually if it’s a matter of something just coming loose, then yes dealers should typically just take the time to repair it. It costs them nothing to do, and they could bill it to the manufacturer… provided there isn’t evidence of a collision, which from the picture it didn’t appear to be.. Especially is a part that costs nothing to them. It’s a matter of haggling of a neglible part with you, or irritating you such that you take your business to the other dealership and leaving them with a less than stellar survey result..[/quote]

Oh YES. There was definitely impact that caused it. No, I wouldn’t have mentioned it and would have fully expected them to fix it free if it was just coming off. But that clearly wasn’t the case.

I’m sorry if I didn’t make that clear in my original post. Looking back I forgot to include that part. Definitely you could see it was from impact hitting something. Most likely a speed bump because you could feel the scrape on the bottom of the car. That impact caused it to bulge out.

I just thought it was awesome even though they could clearly see it was from hitting something that they would fix it free. It wasn’t caused by a design defect of the car but by my wife hitting something.

And I doubt there would be many (any) luxury car makers that would fix something caused by driver error like this free like Tesla did.

[patb]

but if people pay $80, then it’s an 80K car.

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They don’t need a lot of batteries in the swap unit, if they recharge them, and say they recharge in say 30 minutes, you just figure you aren’t going to get more then one Model S per 15 minutes, so you need 2 batteries

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50 MPG hybrids are well within a 3-5 year investment return for reasonable
driving cycles.

100 MPG hybrids are here but the ROI is thin but they are cool

give it another decade and you will either see them at 150 MPG or
pure EV

[no_such_reality]

Model X for $40K?

Tesla Motors plans to unveil an electric car in early 2015 that could sell in the $40,000 range, a mainstream offering that could be key to the automaker’s future growth.

[spdrun]

AFAIK, the model X will *not* be $40k. There will be a third model called model E for that price.

Models S, E, and X, geddit?

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