How much money are you people making that so many of you get a new $80,000 car every six years!!
I cant believe so many people would spend $80,000 on a car without wanting to keep using it for decades
A few drivetrains on ICE vehicles will go tons of miles. The 5 liter Benz v-8 is often good for 400,000 or more. The Toyota Lexus v-8 from the ‘80s ditto. Some normally aspirated Honda 4’s will do it also. But...
No one alive wants any car with 300,000 miles on it even if drivetrain working well. Most can barely tolerate a car with more than 100,000. They wear out generally. EVERYTHING. Not just batteries. Seat springs, carpets, upholstery, door handles, steering gets loose, suspensions fall apart, cars rust...
There are plenty of cars now that can go 1 million miles with two to 10 engine replacements but there are good reasons unrelated to cost people dont do that.
A couple have done it on original engines. these are extraordinary outliers though, and not something people want to use for transport.
This one million mile battery notion ...is perhaps useful not for being able to run that long in the same car but say, for reuse. Or for simply not losing much range during the normal lifespan of a vehicle.
Talk of anything else is more of the mythical hokum that seems to spring up around Elon, even when he’s not pushing it. EV drivetrain doesn’t magically end the wear and tear to the rest of an aging vehicle.
