Drive your Tesla through a puddle and get your warranty voided.

[Sgt Beavis]

This is in the UK but if you have a Tesla, you might want to double check your warranty to be safe.
https://www.thestreet.com/electric-vehicles/these-tesla-owners-were-left-furious

Basically, after driving on wet roads, their Model Y died. Tesla claimed the battery was damaged due to water ingress and voided the warranty on it. They are requiring the owner to pay about $20K for a new battery.

BTW, looking at Rivian’s warranty coverage, I don’t see any water intrusion exceptions that are specific to the battery beyond driving through SALT water.

Also, the R1T has a max water fording height of 43.1 inches. The R1S goes to 43.2 inches. These are with the suspension at max height.
https://rivian.com/support/article/what-is-the-water-fording-height

Take that Tesla.

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[Donald Stanfield]

I guess like Elon said you can use the cyber truck as a boat, but he didn't mention it would void your warranty.

 

[docwhiz]

This is just media FUD about EVs.
In this case there was DAMAGE to the battery pack which caused the flooding.
Lots of Teslas have been driven through lots of deep water with no flooding of the pack.

 

[SSteveEV]

I guess like Elon said you can use the cyber truck as a boat, but he didn't mention it would void your warranty.

No need to mention that if the boat sinks and can't make it back for an insoection

 

[jjswan33]

This is just media FUD about EVs.
In this case there was DAMAGE to the battery pack which caused the flooding.
Lots of Teslas have been driven through lots of deep water with no flooding of the pack.

This isn't the first story like this. Tesla is just shitty when it comes to their warranties, I don't see this as EV hate at all just Tesla assumes if somehow water got in the motors or battery it was neglect and don't cover it.

For example from 2021 or is Inside EVs also producing media FUD about EVs

https://insideevs.com/news/534878/tesla-models-motor-fail-rain/

 

[ads75]

This is just media FUD about EVs.
In this case there was DAMAGE to the battery pack which caused the flooding.
Lots of Teslas have been driven through lots of deep water with no flooding of the pack.

Comes down to did the driver/owner cause the damage (or hit something on the road). Or was there a manufacturing defect causing it to break. To be fair, Tesla doesn’t have the best reputation. Also, to be fair, I’ve seen a lot of drivers do a lot of stupid stuff.

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