re: Would you drive a Tesla?

The battery packs will last just fine. 12,000 to 15,000 miles per year, for 18 years comes to 216,000 to 270,000 miles. Try that with an air filter, spark plug, oil filter, water pump, head gasket, or any of a zillion other parts on an Internal Combination Engine (ICE) that are designed to be replaced on a regular basis.

This is a matter of relative durability. The weakest points of any vehicle, regardless of its power source, remain the wear points between moving parts that vibrate, oscillate, revolve, or rotate as well as those points that prevent the loss of vital fluids used to facilitate cooling of components.

There are more of those weak points on an internal combustion engine powered vehicle than an electric vehicle -- by design -- not just by default.