Excellent design: An Arizona man told a Phoenix TV station that he was trapped inside his Tesla Model Y during a 100-degree day with no knowledge of how to get out.
"I couldn't open the doors. I couldn't lower the windows," Rick Meggison, a 73-year-old resident of Peoria told ABC-15. "The computer was dead, so I couldn't open the glove box. I couldn't open anything."
nostr:npub1xr8gd35szene0r2yvfafr29tjwdedgwd89lnfpmh3pylnygnvd4qmf3q0g Article doesn't say how he got out. Presume he did so pretty quickly, otherwise he'd be dead.
For some reason, electric cars often don't display a gauge showing the state of charge of the 12 volt battery. For a few dollars you can buy a volt meter that plugs into the cigarette lighter and does exactly that. They're usually sold as chargers for small devices like phones.
The problem is made worse when EV drivers don't even know that their car relies on a 12 volt battery to run the EV system.
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nostr:npub1xr8gd35szene0r2yvfafr29tjwdedgwd89lnfpmh3pylnygnvd4qmf3q0g not sure if it is part of the official procedure. But the the staff who handed my model 3 over to me made sure I knew about the manual door release.
