Typical Knightshade missing the forest for the trees, and then going off on a tangent about the straw man.
You don't seem to be using the word straw man correctly here.
"This morning I took my Volvo XC-40 Recharge to the dealer for the mandatory and free to buyer two year 'service'"
"if I had a Tesla there would not be even that." because Tesla doesn't drag their customers into a dealership for unnecessary service just to prop up a vestigial dealer network.
I
literally point out in the post you're quoting that Tesla does that work at your house if you're in a ranger area, rather than having to travel to the dealer. Not everyone has ranger service available of course- and you're free to do the work yourself if you prefer (though the filter can be a PITA to access in certain models/years)
But they still tell you, in the owners manual, you should be doing it- in roughly the same time period. AND they don't do it for free. (legally, the fact Volvo offers it free, is the only reason they can label it "mandatory" for the dealer to do it BTW)
Not entirely sure how a
free service props up the dealer either, unless you mean in the internal-money-transfer sense from corporate to dealer- since there's no $ from the customer moving here.
Instead the most likely business reason Volvo is doing this is they want to reassure customers that moving to EVs from ICE does not involve any weird/costly maintenance out of their pockets... Seems a pretty solid idea when selling to a traditionally pretty conservative group (Volvo buyers) with only a very marginal cost to Volvo. Once their buyers are used to the idea you don't need the massively-greater amount of service ICE cars do they can can eventually fade this out (or keep it as a differentiator I suppose)
It doesn't matter what the unnecessary maintenance was, it matters that it was unnecessary.
But again, Tesla ALSO tells you to do this same stuff. Including the same air filter on the same timeframe for some vehicles (slightly more on other vehicles but still called out). They just use "recommended" instead of mandatory-by-dealer because legally they'd have to offer it for free, instead of charge you, if they said the later.
And if you've ever actually
done the work to access the filter on, say, a 2018 Model 3, you'd know the amount of effort involved, even if DIY, is such that you might as well actually do it while you've got everything open given the filter itself is cheap- rather than disassemble a chunk of the center console just to "check" and then come back 6 months later to check again.
You seem to have misunderstood (and in some cases ignored the actual words contained in) the post in an effort to score points against a poster you dislike here.
Even worse- the OP already resolved the discussion (in a post I replied to with a like for their added clarity) 2 pages before you jumped in for no reason, by clarifying what they meant with their original post here:
Besides being struck by the article's comment (from a stock analyst, though) that Tesla's 4680 cell yield is only 20%, there is another tidbit with more veracity which intrigues me. That is, the LG cell can envelopes, made out of nickel-plated steel, weigh 70-80 grams each. Assuming 75g and...
teslamotorsclub.com
So I'm not sure in what way you think inaccurately going after another poster contributed anything of value to the forum.
Feel free to tell me in PMs, because it sure ain't on topic here.
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