Since nobody is going to bother to read the article:
Tesloop has incurred a combined maintenance cost of roughly $19,000 or about $0.05/mile. This cost breaks down to $6,700 for general vehicle repairs and $12,200 for regularly scheduled maintenance. The Model S’ full service record is available here. The record includes comparable estimated costs of running the service with a Lincoln Town Car instead of a Model S or Mercedes GLS class instead of a Model X. Tesloop estimates that a Lincoln Town Car or Mercedes GLS class’ combined maintenance cost to be around $88,500 ($0.22/mile) and $98,900 ($0.25/mile) respectively over 400,000 miles.
I read the article and did some research as well and still not impressed. 400k miles in 3 years is impressive but that’s anything but normal and putting a lot of miles on a car 3 years old is completely different than putting 400k miles over 8 years and driving 50k miles per year which is also high considering normal is around ~15k miles per year. Drag the maintenance cost out over 8 or more years (26 years if you drove ~15k miles per year to get to 400k miles) for that many miles and it’s a hell of a lot more than $0.05/mile.