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Re:The Lithium Mine Buildup Is Outpacing the Electric-Car Boom by clouddrover on Monday July 29, 2019 @12:03PM (#20556006)
Tesla's warranty is 8 years at 70% original capacity for the Model 3. For the X and S they don't warrant the capacity at all:

https://www.tesla.com/support/vehicle-warranty

You'll be getting less range over time as the battery degrades. Eventually you'll have to replace the battery to get the range back.

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Re:The Lithium Mine Buildup Is Outpacing the Electric-Car Boom by Reason077 on Monday July 29, 2019 @01:23PM (#20557004)
They don't explicitly state a warranted capacity for the Model S/X, but I've never heard of an S/X battery with more than ~20% degradation that wasn't considered faulty by Tesla. Whatever Tesla's reason is for not stating a specific capacity, it's not to screw over S/X owners, and I'm sure that 30% capacity loss within 8 years would be considered a fault.

We don't yet know how they stand up over >8 years of service, of course, but there are many examples of very high milage Tesla vehicles (> 200,000 miles) that are still on their original battery and show only modest degradation.

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Re:The Lithium Mine Buildup Is Outpacing the Electric-Car Boom by clouddrover on Monday July 29, 2019 @07:51PM (#20560751)
> I'm sure that 30% capacity loss within 8 years would be considered a fault.

Why are you sure? If it's not under warranty, it's not under warranty. If it's considered a fault then it would be warranted.

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