An old-ish, robust diesel is usually considered the best option if you wanna buy a car and drive it till the end of time.
But the truth of the matter, and we’ll see more of this in the future, electric cars are also great at that.
Electric cars have fewer moving components and provided you keep up with maintenance and change the battery pack when you’re supposed to, electric cars can theoretically easily rack up 500,000 miles or more.
We don’t enough data yet, mostly because EVs haven’t been around that long, but we do know that the 2015 Tesla Model S you see here, a 70D model, has done 700,000 km – more than 450,000 miles.
With an average of 70,000 miles per year.
This Model S, a former Uber ride, still has its original drive unit, but the front motor was replaced at 380,000 miles, while the battery pack was replaced, under warranty, at 250,000 miles.
Other things? The rear axle was replaced, along with the rear upper links, at around 375,000 miles while the AC compressor was replaced at 300,000 miles.
Here’s the next 400,000 miles, then.
_Flabbergasted LF 