Reader Question: High Mileage & Long-Term EV Maintenance

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 15:30:43 +0000

We recently received an email from a reader about maintaining EVs as they rack up mileage and as the years go by. For people who only lease EVs and switch to a new one every 2-3 years, this generally matters very little, as you don’t usually get to the point … [continued]

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10 Things To NOT Do In Your Tesla Model 3

Credit to Author: Iqtidar Ali| Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2020 11:10:46 +0000

Today we’re going to discuss the “things” that a Tesla Model 3 owner should not do to their car. To be clear, these are things that will not improve the ownership experience. These actions also will not extend the life of Model 3 components like the battery, seats, doors, and more

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10 Things To NOT Do In Your Tesla Model 3

Credit to Author: Iqtidar Ali| Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2020 11:10:46 +0000

Today we’re going to discuss the “things” that a Tesla Model 3 owner should not do to their car. To be clear, these are things that will not improve the ownership experience. These actions also will not extend the life of Model 3 components like the battery, seats, doors, and more

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My Car Expenses The 15 Years Before Tesla

Credit to Author: Paul Fosse| Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2019 01:49:37 +0000

I’ve had an obsession with financial software for some time, something that I probably inherited from my father. I remember when we got our first Apple II in 1978 and he used it for investments and budgeting. When he moved to an IBM PC (which I bought for him at a discount since I was an IBM employee from 1984 to 1998), he fell in love with Managing Your Money. I moved to Quicken in the mid 1990s. I’m trying to spend less time tracking my finances and more time writing, so I’m moving to more cloud-based methods of tracking my finances. But I noticed that I had 15 years of data on my auto spending available as part of this obsession. I didn’t have it easily tied to my 7 cars, but don’t think of this as a review of any car, but as a general survey of the fuel, maintenance, and repair cost for 7 cars over about 400,000 miles

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