I find it highly amusing that every article written by someone who is short (or even just critical with no position) Tesla is usually trashed and disregarded, but articles written by TSLA shareholders are "accurate" and "fair".
I am an X professional mechanic for VW and Porsche. Engine rebuilds was my specialty. To compare an ICE failure to an EV drive unit failure, the differences are extreme. In the case of the failures within the Tesla drive units, there was only thrust washers that needed replacement. Tesla was swapping complete units as it was the fastest remedy to get the customer back on the road. These defective units were then repaired back in Fremont, cleanly and quickly. The labor involved in repairing the DU's was a fraction of that of an ICE rebuild. The amount of parts for the DU is a tiny fraction of a fraction of what goes into an ICE rebuild. With an EV DU defect, only the part(s) that fail require replacement. In a typical ICE, any failure generally takes out most of the rest of the engine. We are talking broken connecting rods, pistons with holes, burned up valves, worn cams and lifters, on and on and on. In almost all ICE failures, all major parts must be replaced at great expense, oily mess, and huge labor costs. The nature of an ICE is to explode (that's what makes it go), an ICE is basically "self destructing" from the moment it is started as a new engine. Wear is so rapid that even a small problem that requires take down, even on a relatively new motor requires replacement of many very expensive parts already showing wear and heat destruction.
