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Re:The Tesla Bricking Story? It’s Nonsense by dmethvin on Wednesday February 22, 2012 @04:28PM (#3622558)
Where's the nonsense? This doesn't seem to debunk the claim that if the batteries go totally dead you are screwed, out a $40K battery pack.

> Tesla batteries can remain unplugged for weeks (or even months), without reaching zero state of charge.

Maybe I'm trying to find a conspiracy here, but the batteries generally aren't unplugged; they are connected to the car and it's drawing a small current. That drain from the mostly-idle Tesla's electronics are enough to flatten the battery faster than if it was truly unplugged.

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Re:The Tesla Bricking Story? It’s Nonsense by DanBC on Wednesday February 22, 2012 @04:42PM (#3622610)
That quote should be read as "tesla batteries can remain unplugged from a power source for weeks".

I agree this article doesn't debunk the other article.

I haven't read the Tesla documentation, but if "bricking" is real I'd expect some firm warnings about it. The other article said that those warnings were absent; it also claimed that the documents played down the risk.

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