Anyone who's visited TSMC can tell you drive unit failures have been happening before 100k miles let alone a entire million.
People have had back to back drive unit failures on new cars.
I recall a MS owner getting the run around about an impending DU failure (which manifests as a whine under acceleration) as their warranty was about to expire, only to have it fail out of warranty.
Now people are trying to DIY DU whine on cars that haven't even made it to 100k.
Running a DU in a simulated 1 million mile test is nowhere near the same as actually lasting 1 million miles in the real world over as many years as that would take.
The only thing that matters is the percentage of those failures before the 1mil miles. And that'll be a while.
If Teslas had nearly any concerningly significant number of drivetrain failures, nobody would buy them and they've been around long enough for people to catch up. I did plenty of research before buying mine and I follow Tesla quite closely. Haven't heard any concerns in this regard.
I expect Tesla to only get better for the time being.
We need to stop pretending like replacing one powerplant with another will change that. An entire generation of drive units are failing because of an issue the same boring issue that kills so many ICEs: Coolant getting where it's not supposed to because of a failed seal, causing lubricants to fail.
If you want a car that will go a million miles today, a "boring" base model Lexus is probably a safer bet than a Model 3.
Anyone who's visited TSMC can tell you drive unit failures have been happening before 100k miles let alone a entire million.
People have had back to back drive unit failures on new cars.
I recall a MS owner getting the run around about an impending DU failure (which manifests as a whine under acceleration) as their warranty was about to expire, only to have it fail out of warranty.
Now people are trying to DIY DU whine on cars that haven't even made it to 100k.
Running a DU in a simulated 1 million mile test is nowhere near the same as actually lasting 1 million miles in the real world over as many years as that would take.