Look who I spotted on the motorway today

I give up - who?

Clue is written on the side of his car. Taxi driver with 1.4 million miles on his Model S

So?

Hansjörg von Gemmingen-Freiherr, supposedly the record holder for the Tesla with the most miles on it's Odometer

I’m curious what all repairs he’s had, including if he’s replaced a battery pack.

Cool

Looks like he spotted you as well.

Yeah. Would love to know how many battery packs

https://www.notateslaapp.com/news/2116/the-story-of-a-tesla-model-s-that-has-traveled-over-two-million-kilometers He’s had several

4th battery, Teslas average 15% battery degradation after 200k miles.

I’d love to see interior shots of the car. The fact those some of those batteries are last 300k+ miles is awesome.

Man, that was back when having a Tesla was cool

The fact that the Tesla w the most miles is only 140k is sad

Add another 0! It’s European, they use periods and not commas for thousands

Mine has 177k on original pack, some people think it's a lot lol

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I literally just read an article about him.

Oh cool I’m American and not good with conversions that definitely flew over my head lol

Where was this spotted?

Based on the bridges and the Schwarzwald i would guess between Bühl and Offenburg (Germany). I have seen him there multiple times.

did he ever upgrade the battery? Like start with a 60kwh version and then swap in a 100kwh version?

it is a lot...

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I've also seen the car a couple of times already. This is on the A5, right?

No, all four are 85kw. Interestingly the second pack lasted 400k+ miles

I was gonna say bc my 2018 model 3 has 99k miles😂

Send it to wham bam Tesla cam! Not a crash, but still a unique sighting.

Looks like you spotted a huge loser congrats

So am I 😉

Woulda been next in line 🥈

190k miles on my og pack, 2014 S 85

interesting. I wonder if larger batteries last any longer.

my friend saw him on a roadtrip this summer

The rear door should list the Battery replacements and Drive unit replacements.... Fair

4 batteries at 12k each (3rd party) or 20k from Tesla is basically the cost of the car again. Honestly not much to brag about. I might be a bit bitter right now, my 2013 85 had to be scrapped because of the battery issue

my first pack has 700000 km

Mi or km? I have 146k miles and going

so bro spent less then 100k to travel 1.4 mil miles, and that isn't anything to brag about? I been driving 30 years, only had 2 cars get over 200k miles, so let's just assume it took me 7 vehicles, avg price of 50k, that's 350k in just buying vehicles, now add in oil changes, belts, alternators, etc..etc. I have a cybertruck, cost me like 120k, if it cost me say another 100k to replaces batteries and it last me the next 20 years as I only drive about 300-400 miles a month. I'd be happy with that.

Miles. Edited.

Hasn’t it had multiple battery and drive train replacements? And presumably most suspension and an ECU or two? Edit: “1. Hansjörg replaced the first battery at 290,000 km (180k miles) 2. The second battery lasted 670,000 km (416k miles), before being replaced due to cell in-balance – it had suffered only a 20% loss of range 3. The third battery lasted for 550,000 km (341k miles) 4. The vehicle is currently on its fourth battery, which has already clocked 250,000 km (155k miles), but remains going strong There is a 150,000 km gap above, which was due to the vehicle using a temporary loaner battery offered by Tesla while the vehicle’s battery was repaired.” That’s pretty great for each battery.

Great for the battery, I think the terrible thing is the amount of motors he's gone through in the time. 14 If I remember correctly

Now add in all the motors he's replaced too

I bet if was non performance then it would be way less motors. The performance edition ones I think put too much stress on the DUs.

Okay… so 434k miles😂

Not sure, BUT newer teslas with the more efficient battery tech are pretty much guaranteed to last 500k miles. Hell, the motors are warrantied until a million miles (1.6M km)

I couldn't find that part, but yeah that'd be horrendous considering how generally robust electric motors are.

My parents brag about how many miles they had on the old buick but forget to mention that they had replaced the whole drivetrain part-by-part about twice over. Any car is unkillable like the Ship of Theseus …. with enough repairs.

damn impressive. Probably longer than the average engine from all manufactures. Most would have major issues before then or with the trans.

The only parts original on that car is the frame, body panels, and glass. 🤣

He's driving the car really gently. No hard acceleration, charging as slowly as he can make the supercharger go (he loves to be the second car on a V1 or V2 SuC couple), etc.

If did he do coolant deletes on any of the DUs since it’s a perf? If not then that explains the constant swap.

Damn, so that many batteries I would have just sold it and bought a new one.

Pretty sure he had lifetime warranty or something like that

Any motor replacements or coolant delete modifications?

I still think it's pretty cool. Absolutely love mine and will likely get another unless there's a better EV out by that time.

200k is impressive my first care which I took good care of (a Jeep Grand Cheroke Laredo) transmission died after 76k miles and cooling system also failed. My second Jeep Liberty shit the brick after 137k miles. This is why I sell my cars every 4 years and lease occasionally.

nope. i've just had mcu replaced (optionally), new door handles, and pyro fuse blew once and needed replaced.

It's not a linear degradation though. After ~80% capacity, batteries start to degrade very rapidly

The motors die from coolant intrusion and bearing death, strain has very little to do with it.

Enough is enough, now a BMW.