Re: [MBZ] Don't let your Tesla battery discharge. "It's dead, Jim."

2012-02-24 Thread Rich Thomas
I use mine --R On 2/24/12 1:32 PM, Mitch Haley wrote: Curt Raymond wrote: I suspect this is a non-starter for the high-end cars. Who takes their $100,000 Tesla to the airport? When the lower cost mommy-mobiles hit the street it'll be a different story I'm sure. I think the opposite. The m

Re: [MBZ] Don't let your Tesla battery discharge. "It's dead, Jim."

2012-02-24 Thread Mitch Haley
Curt Raymond wrote: I suspect this is a non-starter for the high-end cars. Who takes their $100,000 Tesla to the airport? When the lower cost mommy-mobiles hit the street it'll be a different story I'm sure. I think the opposite. The middle class drives their cars daily or at least weekly.

Re: [MBZ] Don't let your Tesla battery discharge. "It's dead, Jim."

2012-02-24 Thread Curt Raymond
ubject: Re: [MBZ] Don't let your Tesla battery discharge. "It's dead, Jim." Message-ID: <30f2f970-a512-4159-abd4-84f6f9a38...@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=us-ascii As long as I know what I have to do, this would not dissuade me from getting a Tesla.

Re: [MBZ] Don't let your Tesla battery discharge. "It's dead, Jim."

2012-02-23 Thread Kevin Kraly
Of course, if you hooked your bricked Tesla to a "dumb" charger and it caught on fire, maybe, the ins co would pay for that. The fire from a 3 cell 11.1v LiPo RC battery pack is spectacular, so a fire from a pack with hundreds of times more capacity would result in very little recognizable rem

Re: [MBZ] Don't let your Tesla battery discharge. "It's dead, Jim."

2012-02-23 Thread Dave Walton
As long as I know what I have to do, this would not dissuade me from getting a Tesla. I'll pay an extra buck or two a day for airport parking that let's me plug in. A market driven economy will adapt to the needs of electric car drivers. -Dave Walton On Feb 23, 2012, at 10:25 AM, Jim Cathey

Re: [MBZ] Don't let your Tesla battery discharge. "It's dead, Jim."

2012-02-23 Thread Mitch Haley
Scott Ritchey wrote: I'm confused. I know it's not good to discharge lead-acid batteries or even let them stand partially charged. But I've (almost) always been able to charge a dead lead-acid battery although some (maybe a lot) of the capacity is usually lost. Why are these lithium batteri

Re: [MBZ] Don't let your Tesla battery discharge. "It's dead, Jim."

2012-02-23 Thread Scott Ritchey
es incapable of recharge when fully discharged? -Original Message- From: mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of John Freer Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 12:56 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] Don't let your Tesla battery discha

Re: [MBZ] Don't let your Tesla battery discharge. "It's dead, Jim."

2012-02-23 Thread Jim Cathey
That article still doesn't address the issue of what would happen if the car is left in storage for a few months without being charged- a very common scenario. Will it become a brick? Just like any battery, if you could completely disconnect it during storage it'd be a lot happier. But these a

Re: [MBZ] Don't let your Tesla battery discharge. "It's dead, Jim."

2012-02-23 Thread Dimitri Seretakis
That article still doesn't address the issue of what would happen if the car is left in storage for a few months without being charged- a very common scenario. Will it become a brick? Sent from my iPhone On Feb 23, 2012, at 7:33 AM, Jaime Kopchinski wrote: And, an update: http://www.itworld.c

Re: [MBZ] Don't let your Tesla battery discharge. "It's dead, Jim."

2012-02-23 Thread Jaime Kopchinski
And, an update: http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/252452/false-scare-tesla Of course, it never made any sense that a company would put a product on the market that could render itself useless under a normal use case. Jaime ___ http://www.okiebenz.com

Re: [MBZ] Don't let your Tesla battery discharge. "It's dead, Jim."

2012-02-22 Thread John Freer
6 volt batteries in a golf cart act the same way. Once they are dead, you need to find the two primary Batteries and hook up a regular 12 volt charger to wake them up. >From what I read in that article, the Nissan leaf shuts down everything >automatically just before the batteries go dead. MB

Re: [MBZ] Don't let your Tesla battery discharge. "It's dead, Jim."

2012-02-22 Thread Kevin Kraly
I was thinking about possibly purchasing the Toyota/Tesla RAV4 soon to be available, but am reconsidering after reading this. The same situation is possible with the Lithium Polymer (LiPo) batteries that I use in my radio-controlled truck, and that was a shock to me at nearly $70.00 for a new

Re: [MBZ] Don't let your Tesla battery discharge. "It's dead, Jim."

2012-02-22 Thread Curt Raymond
-0700 From: G Mann To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] Don't let your Tesla battery discharge. "It's dead, Jim." Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Maybe the Chevy Volt isn't so bad after all. At least is has a self destruct sequenc

Re: [MBZ] Don't let your Tesla battery discharge. "It's dead, Jim."

2012-02-22 Thread G Mann
Maybe the Chevy Volt isn't so bad after all. At least is has a self destruct sequence built in that will burn your house down then you can collect replacement costs from your homeowners insurance. eh? A but it's all "GREEN !! " I feel so much better . TYVM.,,, I'll keep dr

Re: [MBZ] Don't let your Tesla battery discharge. "It's dead, Jim."

2012-02-22 Thread Michael Canfield
Wow! What a disappointment. This shit of these companies putting out garbage at the expense of US Taxpayers and not backing it up needs to stop. Mike On Feb 22, 2012 10:15 AM, "Allan Streib" wrote: > > http://theunderstatement.com/post/18030062041/its-a-brick-tesla-motors-devastating-design >

[MBZ] Don't let your Tesla battery discharge. "It's dead, Jim."

2012-02-22 Thread Allan Streib
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