By Sebastian Blanco, AutoblogGreen
Remember all the way back to Monday, when “bricking” your pricey electronic gadget simply meant you needed to get a new iPhone to try and jailbreak? The electric vehicle world is still dissecting the charges that surfaced yesterday that a Tesla Roadster could be bricked – i.e., made inoperable – if the battery gets worn down to zero, as there are new questions cropping up about the motive behind the original article by Michael Degusta. That story continues to evolve, with Degusta now claiming that it was Tesla that leaked the name of Roadster owner #340, Max Drucker, who was a business partner of Degusta’s and the source for some of the information in Degusta’s original post.
As we noted when the story broke, though, something this big – an expensive EV battery dying – is something we would have expected to have heard about the first time it happened, not with the fifth car (as it being claimed). After all, people have been driving plug-in vehicles for decades, and “bricking” has not been a major (or even minor) issue among people who know what they’re doing with an EV.
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Gas engine cars “brick” just as easily:
Don’t change the oil.
Don’t change the timing belt (certain cars)
Or leave you stranded until repairs:
Burn out the clutch (stick shift cars)
Leave the lights on (older cars)
The battery gets stolen
Having a car die and having to get a new one is nothing new to automobiles. ICEs strand people all the time. ICEs strand people permanently all the time — most of the time it didn’t get you home first.
Yet another red herring like EVs are too silent. (Should we put beepers on bicycles too?)
Posted by Majo no Kiki on March 2, 2024 at 10:53 am