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Originally Posted by clyde
I think battery replacement cost has been discussed here before, but I've forgotten. Thinking in terms of a typical luxury car owner, is a battery replacement a fair substitute for an engine/transmission rebuild/replacement in terms of cost and likelihood? Or is that way off?
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In terms of actual cost? It's probably more than that, though I don't know whether anyone has ever actually bought a replacement pack from Tesla yet and paid retail.
But it's also different in terms of risk; in the early years it's much less likely (and Tesla offers an 8 year warranty that covers defects), but I suppose at some point it becomes much more likely.
In theory, there probably will be salvage packs you'll be able to buy in the out years, though I don't know whether Tesla will support those.
The Roadster provides a window into how Tesla may deal with this going forward; at some point they developed an entirely new replacement pack that could go into the Roadster because the old ones were out of production.
I assume, but don't know for sure, that at some point they'd do something similar for the Model S and Model X, but that date is probably a long way off since the current gen packs are still being built.