EVs in Fleets - Tesloop Data Learnings

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“ Few have driven a Tesla to the point at which the vehicle really starts to show its age. But !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , a shuttle service in Southern California composed of Teslas, was ticking the odometers of its cars well past 300,000 miles with no signs of slowing.

The company’s fleet of seven vehicles—a mix of Model Xs, Model 3s and a Model S—are now among the highest-mileage Teslas in the world. They zip almost daily between Los Angeles, San Diego, and destinations in between. Each of Tesloop’s cars are regularly racking up about 17,000 miles per month (roughly eight times the average for corp orate fleet mileage). Many need to fully recharge at least twice each day.

These long days have pushed Tesla’s engineering to the limit, making Tesloop an extreme testbed for the durability of Elon Musk’s cars. Tesloop provided Quartz with five years of maintenance logs, where its vehicles racked up over more than 2.5 million miles, to understand how the electric vehicles (EV) are living up to the promise of cheaper vehicles with unprecedented durability compared to their conventional combustion-engine counterparts.”

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Great origin story of the company here:

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DISCUSSION (6)


Kinja'd!!! Tekamul > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
11/14/2019 at 11:00

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This is good data, and shows the value of an electric drive train in something like a fleet vehicle. I wouldn’t want to apply it to personal ownership when looking at long term cost of ownership, though.

They replaced 6 batteries in a 7 vehicle fleet, all under warranty. If those batteries had gone over the warranty limitations, it would bump the operating cost ~ 25% for the fleet.


Kinja'd!!! Spanfeller is a twat > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
11/14/2019 at 11:09

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Im glad Tesla started charging for using the supercharger network


Kinja'd!!! davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Spanfeller is a twat
11/14/2019 at 11:13

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I wonder how many Teslas/owners have “free supercharging for life”?


Kinja'd!!! Thisismydisplayname > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
11/14/2019 at 11:58

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Very interesting and pretty cool to see the higher mileage on the cars.  Seems like if Tesla could make a livery style vehicle without some of the fancy features, they would be good alternatives for fleets.  


Kinja'd!!! Shoop > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
11/14/2019 at 12:43

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So whats the dollar per year on the vehicles? That's my question 


Kinja'd!!! davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Shoop
11/14/2019 at 14:04

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Yeah, would be nice.

$152,216 across its fleet of seven vehicles, along with four others it operates but does not own, over five years.

This would be $2767.56 per vehicle, per year, in maintenance alone, right?

16 cents per mile in running costs, according to my calculation vs. 2.5 million miles, but they claim “total cost per mile for maintenance has come in at around $0.06". Not sure what I’m missing - maybe that $152k includes electricity cost.

“ Sonnad predicts Tesloop’s Model 3 fleet will see total costs (which includes depreciation, or how much value the car loses before its sold) fall as low as $0.18 to $0.25 per mile after driving past 500,000 miles”