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Why Tesla Cars Aren’t Bricked By Failing Batteries

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itwbennett writes “Don’t believe recent claims made by a blogger that non-functioning batteries in the Tesla Roadster cause the electric cars to be bricked, says IDC analyst Sam Jaffe. ‘Here’s the primary fact that the blogger in question doesn’t understand: the Tesla battery pack is not a battery,’ says Jaffe. ‘It’s a collection of more than 8,000 individual batteries. Each of those cells is independently managed. So there’s only two ways for the entire battery pack to fail. The first is if all 8,000 cells individually fail (highly unlikely except in the case of something catastrophic like a fire). The second failure mechanism is if the battery management system tells the pack to shut down because it has detected a dangerous situation, such as an extremely low depth of discharge. If that’s the case, all that needs to be done is to tow the vehicle to a charger, recharge the batteries and then reboot the battery management system. This is the most likely explanation for the five ‘bricks’ that the blogger claims to have heard about.’”

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