Texas man does full inspection of rental 2022 Tesla Model 3 Long Range with over 204,000 miles and finds out the exact battery degradation

This guy decided to ‘inspect’ a 2022 Tesla Model 3 Long Range that spent most of its life as a Hertz rental car in Texas.

Rental cars are notoriously beat up because people mistreat them.

But, surprisingly, this one wasn’t.

Mind you, the battery degradation was certainly exactly as bad as you’d expect.

Rental cars live a tough life

Rental cars feel like public benches.

Everyone uses them; no one cares much about how they end up there or if or how they’re maintained.

A few years ago, Top Gear even created an entire segment starting from this premise.

Jeremy Clarkson raced James May across New Zealand at the wheel of ‘the fastest car in the world’.

And ‘the fastest car in the world’ was just a random rental car, because he drove it like a rental, like he didn’t care, which is how most people treat these poor rental cars.

With that in mind, the guy behind the Spinner EV was expecting this 2022 Tesla Model 3 to be a hot mess.

But it wasn’t.

This Tesla was in surprisingly good shape

This 2022 Tesla Model 3 Long Range has served as a Hertz rental vehicle in Texas for over 204,000 miles.

Over 200,000 miles is a lot whichever way you look at it, but it is especially bad for a rental car.

And yet, despite the expected wear with a few dents and bruises here and there, the windshield was in excellent condition and the cabin was also in great shape.

Everything still worked and even the wear and tear of the materials – such as the seat plastic trim and degradation of the upholstery – was under control.

Still, the battery never lies and it didn’t on this occasion either, showing 29 percent degradation, which is pretty bad.

In real-world terms, it means you’re looking at around 250 miles of range when you’re lucky, a long way down from the original 358-mile rating.

Still, for a 200,000-mile car that’s been used as a rental, that’s not too bad.