• meseek #2982@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    Or the foresight to have a small backup battery unit used exclusively for emergencies like say when the battery goes out or when someone reverses their car into a lake. The fact these are such death traps shows just how bad the US is when it comes to giving a flying fuck about people over money.

    And all the while Elon is touted as some kind of super Lex Lutherian genius.

    Honestly if I wrote a fictional book with some of the shit he’s done and how the world looks at him publishers would throw it back in my face as being the most unbelievable POS they’ve read in the past 20 years.

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        4 months ago

        Nope it’s a separate battery used like in a normal car to power the low voltage stuff so you don’t have to use high grade power lines to run the windows and doors

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          During the pandemic my car sat in the garage until the battery died. After 7 hours of charging it, turned on the car and found the hybrid battery was almost full.

          I get why the high and low voltage systems are separate, but damn that was one of those “Really!?” moments…

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            4 months ago

            It’s much much much cheaper to use the same 12V systems that other cars use.

            Kia/hyundai solved this by having a disconnect on their (li-ion) 12V battery. When the voltage gets low it completely isolates the battery. There is a button inside the car that reconnects it right before starting the car.

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        4 months ago

        I should have said a small battery backup done properly knowing full well the abysmal QA of that company.

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      4 months ago

      I still dont like something that is electric powered making it so you cant get through a door. If there is a short, the battery dies (which it will someday) or generally bad parts could potentially lead to a preventable death. Cars were made so keys (or key like) can open the door no matter what. And especially in the heat everyone is going through in the US.

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        4 months ago

        There is still a mechanical latch but it is on the inside and is well-hidden.

      • meseek #2982@lemmy.ca
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        Ya I hear you. I don’t even like driving modern cars because they are all electrical and the pedals feel like video game controls. But nothing in the Tesla is built well. I fully believe it possible to build a full proof battery backup and not just hook up a random 12v that probably suffers from the same abysmal QA as the rest of the car.