Maybe this wasn't clear in my earlier comment, but he has been a mechanic for lots of other types of cars, and he stated that the reliability was materially worse than other cars.
I think what people don't get is, A lot of Model S owners have no problem paying to be beta testers. Problems occur, but Tesla is fantastic about fixing them quickly through their service centers.
Plenty of people have brought cars before Model S was on sale, and never had a problem. That is reliability. In Denmark we have our fair share of Model S. I live is a smaller city and I see at least 5 every day. I haven't heard about a single Model S without issues, which is the same as a mechanic that states he is on first name with every single Tesla owner in the area.
They are behind most other manufactures in production knowledge, and they're using new technology. Of course it'll be near impossible for them to avoid issues altogether.
