New tires every 7k miles? Electric cars save gas; tire wear shocks some drivers
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Re: New tires every 7k miles? Electric cars save gas; tire wear shocks some drivers
#2Looks like an astroturf campaign, with essentially the same story popping up around the country.
Re: New tires every 7k miles? Electric cars save gas; tire wear shocks some drivers
#3I always had to change tyres on gas-powered cars after 30,000 km, they are completely worn by then.
Currently through 13k on my Tesla and while there's some visible wear i'm sure they will last at least about 25k or maybe full 30k.
Re: New tires every 7k miles? Electric cars save gas; tire wear shocks some drivers
#4Looks like an astroturf campaign, with essentially the same story popping up around the country. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39159783
Yep, the couple quoted at the start of the article "started noticing wear on the tires" at 5k. And then the 7k quote is also from them - note that it doesn't say they actually had to replace at 7k.
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#5I always had to change tyres on gas-powered cars after 30,000 km, they are completely worn by then. Currently through 13k on my Tesla and while there's some visible wear i'm sure they will last at least about 25k or maybe full 30k.
Every 30,000km seems really often to become completely worn
Re: New tires every 7k miles? Electric cars save gas; tire wear shocks some drivers
#6Looks like an astroturf campaign, with essentially the same story popping up around the country. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39159783
I would not be surprised if tires wear faster on a vehicle that weighs ~40% more. Another thing to consider is road damage, which is famously proportional to the weight to the power of four. [1]
Re: New tires every 7k miles? Electric cars save gas; tire wear shocks some drivers
#7If you drive like a maniac then you can eat up your tires way faster than in an ICE vehicle. It is not the norm though from what I understand.
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#8I always had to change tyres on gas-powered cars after 30,000 km, they are completely worn by then. Currently through 13k on my Tesla and while there's some visible wear i'm sure they will last at least about 25k or maybe full 30k.
That seems incredibly fast, tires should last a lot longer than that.
Re: New tires every 7k miles? Electric cars save gas; tire wear shocks some drivers
#9I always had to change tyres on gas-powered cars after 30,000 km, they are completely worn by then. Currently through 13k on my Tesla and while there's some visible wear i'm sure they will last at least about 25k or maybe full 30k.
The expected lifetime of tires is 100k km, I thought.
Re: New tires every 7k miles? Electric cars save gas; tire wear shocks some drivers
#10Looks like an astroturf campaign, with essentially the same story popping up around the country. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39159783
I've been seeing a lot of anti-electric stories recently, even here. A lot about how Hertz has been selling their electric cars (mostly unrelated to them being electric, but because they see a lot of scrapes and scrapes are costlier for them to fix on the electrics they have), about how the market is cooling down, etc.
Seems like some interests are threatened by the prevalence of electric cars.