Comments on: “Bricked” Tesla Roadster Battery Launches Electric Vehicle Debate

By: jbfalaska

jbfalaska — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 20:49:36 +0000

Volt has memory protection. Simply can’t happen. The Tesla should step up and take car of the design issue at the very least. 6,000 laptop batteries are hard to buy and configured. That’s a lot of foriegn battery cost.

By: Wevenhuis

Wevenhuis — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:04:34 +0000

If the analogy by Tesla is correct they are actually advertising that fuel cars are still the better choice of electric. A stored fuel car in the garage will still function optimally after two months, with no bricking or need for an oil change, whilst an electric car unplugged will probably will have to be replaced for a preposterous amount of money. Thus it looks like we’ll still be stuck with fuel dependency till we get the formula right for longterm battery dependancy and less plugged in dependancy. That is after all, what we are all aiming for. It is us who determine when we power up and maintain the car properly, not the technology.

By: caeman

caeman — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:26:59 +0000

This is going to be a PR disaster for Tesla. There is simply no excuse for this. Their example of “engines requiring oil changes” is so not the same thing as this problem. And at $40,000, that is price of new Prius. If this were an engine’d car, per their analogy, a new engine would only cost about a few thousand dollars, not $40k.

By: mkitty

mkitty — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:41:15 +0000

They could have a better design. Other electric cars have a normal, cheap, 12V car (or even MC) battery for the always-on systems and only use the expensive batteries for actually driving the car, and disconnect the expensive batteries when parked without charging. Mind, the expensive batteries *will* discharge over time even disconnected, but it’ll take a year or two.