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Tesla Motors Keeps Pushing the Envelope with Extended Warranty

By Paul Crowe

Tesla warranty increased to 8 years or infinite milesSome people have a way of earning your respect. It doesn’t matter whether you agree with them on every issue, their actions set them apart. For me, Elon Musk is one of those people. He just increased the warranty on the the Tesla Model S 85kWh drive unit to eight years or infinite miles, whichever comes first, so it now matches the battery pack. It’s also retroactive, so if you already own one of these, your warranty is extended and if you buy one used, you get it, too. If you think about it, the battery and drive unit pretty much covers everything that makes the car go. Impressive.

When Tesla makes warranties like this, along with their efforts to sell cars direct instead of through dealers, it must drive the other companies crazy, especially General Motors, that has recalled more vehicles this year than it has sold.

Batteries are still the weak spot, but his new battery factory which will be built in partnership with Panasonic, is going to build more batteries than all of the other battery factories in the world, combined. That should bring the cost down which will make possible a new model Tesla at a much lower price. If anyone is going to make electric cars more popular, it’s far more likely to be Tesla than any of the established car companies.

Elon Musk recently open sourced all of Tesla’s patents on electric vehicles. He figured all they did was open the company to perpetual lawsuits by someone looking for a quick buck, so he gave them all away. Problem solved.

I recently came across this video (now removed by CBS) of his interview on 60 Minutes, telling the story of his life from his early years in South Africa to his move to the USA and the serial adventures from selling a software program he wrote for millions of dollars, co-founding PayPal and selling that for $1.5 billion, taking his share of the proceeds, starting Tesla to build electric cars and then SpaceX to build rockets so he could go to Mars. Wow.

It seems his method is go big, and when you win, double down and go bigger. As the video shows, both Tesla and SpaceX were hanging by a thread and at the last moment, they pulled through. When you look at everything he’s done so far, a retroactive, infinite mile, any number of owners warranty seems like no big deal. Like I said, much respect.

Link: Tesla

Posted on August 16, 2014 Filed Under: Motor Vehicles


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Comments

  1. Drive The Wheels Off says

    August 18, 2014 at 1:59 pm

    Tesla makes doing business look easy…execute on great design (engineering AND aesthetics), then back it up with warranties that clearly states everyone in the company stands behind their work. That is what doing business is about.

    Their approach to personal transport goes beyond electric drive.

  2. GenWaylaid says

    August 18, 2014 at 5:24 pm

    I’ll bet everything starts breaking down as soon as you roll over infinity+1.

    It’s probably much cheaper for Tesla to maintain the drivetrain for eight years on every car they make, rather than face the liability that could arise from letting someone else work on it.

    Worth noting: the warranty on the 85 kWh battery pack has been eight years/infinite miles for some time now. This appears to extend those terms to the rest of the drivetrain.

  3. Nicolas says

    August 20, 2014 at 5:58 pm

    Mr Musk, if you need someone to run a motorcycle division of Tesla, shoot me a note ! 😉

  4. Racetrack Style says

    August 24, 2014 at 2:54 am

    another worthwhile video:

    http://youtu.be/i7J-tlrkVEE

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