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   In the U.S., most people typically drive less than 20,000 miles in a   
   year. Germany’s Hansjörg von Gemmingen-Hornberg, however, drives   
   well over 100,000 miles a year – and in a Tesla Model S. As   
   InsideEVs reports, his 2014 Model S has officially crossed the   
   million-mile mark, and currently sitting with just under 1.2 million   
   miles on the odometer. Which, by any standard, is a lot of miles,   
   especially for an electric car.   
      
   If you do the math, that’s more than 130,000 miles of driving every   
   year, so it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that he’s no longer   
   on the original motor or battery pack. In fact, the rear motor has   
   been replaced 13 times, and the car is now on its fourth battery   
   pack. Doing a little more math, that works out to one battery pack   
   every 300,000 miles or so, which really isn’t bad. The engines in   
   most gas-powered cars often fail before they hit the 300,000-mile   
   mark.   
      
   Gemmingen-Hornberg hasn’t been as lucky with the rear motor, though.   
   With the car on its 14th motor, that works out to less than 100,000   
   miles per motor and more than one motor replacement per year on   
   average. As InsideEVs points out, that’s a common problem with early   
   versions of the Tesla Model S, and it took Tesla a while to figure   
   out what the problem was, so the motors kept failing.   
      
   Then again, most Tesla owners don’t drive 130,000 miles a year, so   
   it’s not like regular people are replacing the motor in their Model   
   S every year. As for why Gemmingen-Hornberg drives so much, the dude   
   just likes to go on road trips. Long road trips. Last month, for   
   example, he visited Morocco. It’s hard to imagine spending that much   
   time in any car, but clearly he enjoys it, so we say rock on,   
   Hansjörg. Let’s get this puppy up to two million miles.   
      
   https://jalopnik.com/1-2-million-mile-tesla-model-s-has-gone-   
   through-13-moto-1851081004   
      
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