“Maintenance-free” EV’s are a myth.
My P85D needed $40K+ worth of repairs (thankfully under warranty).
In fairness, these aren't maintenance costs. Though I'll absolutely agree that NO car is maintenance
free, Tesla's really do require much
less maintenance than the average ICE car. No oil changes, no transmission fluid flushes, severely reduced brake maintenance (thanks to regen braking the average user probably won't have to replace pads/rotors in the car's lifetime), no spark plugs, no timing belt/chain, etc. Tires, wipers/wiper fluid, and
maybe brake fluid flushes are about it unless you're talking very long term ownership. Given how often I use the brakes I probably wouldn't even bother with fluid flushes until I hit 4 years or more. DOT 3/4 fluids are hygroscopic, of course, but the fluid will still work just fine unless you're doing REALLY heavy braking (cycling brakes repeatedly/heavy snubs). Not that I'd take it to the track like that, but if I ever did I'd be doing a full brake system overhaul anyway (including hi-temp fluids).
I digress, but I'm seeing a lot of folks conflating car maintenance with car repairs in this thread, but these are very different things.
To OP: I'm sorry to hear about your issues with Tesla. When it comes to reliability, I've found them to be pretty average if not sligtly worse than average among the other makes I've owned. It sure sounds like you got one that's been ragged on pretty hard. As another poster said, if you have any documentation at all of their assurance that it had never been in an accident, I'd at least seek legal advice to find out what your recourse is (provided you can be certain that it WAS in an accident). I'm guessing you may be out of luck if you have nothing in writing, especially with a clean carfax on the car. They can probably hide behind that unless you can show some other way that they would have had knowledge of the accident. Can't hurt to look into it, though.