Tony Posted February 24, 2012 Report Share Posted February 24, 2012 More than devastating i think> http://jalopnik.com/5887265/tesla-motors-d...-design-problem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hms Posted February 24, 2012 Report Share Posted February 24, 2012 What is being powered when the ignition is off. Must have one hell of a dark current to flatten those batteries. Why is there no battery isolator as commercial vehicles, voltage gets to a certain level, it isolates the battery and cuts the power. (not while the ignition is on!) H Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phipck Posted February 24, 2012 Report Share Posted February 24, 2012 with the price of the teslar im sure that there are quite a few owners who have several cars, meaning by the time they get round to using the teslar the power drain inherant in all batteries has taken its toll. There doesnt have to be anything plugged in, batteries loose charge without anything connected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freaky Roadster Posted February 25, 2012 Report Share Posted February 25, 2012 Found some info on the net a few months ago. At the moment in the UK, it works out LESS green when you plug an electric car into the mains to charge. This is based on how much electricity is generated by fossil fuels, about 80% at the moment. The break even point being somewhere around 49%. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parthiban Posted February 27, 2012 Report Share Posted February 27, 2012 That's a quite a big problem, how has that not affected other electric cars? Surely there must be prius's out there that haven't been used for ages but we haven't heard of dead battery packs? Or have we? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tango Posted February 27, 2012 Report Share Posted February 27, 2012 That's a quite a big problem, how has that not affected other electric cars? Surely there must be prius's out there that haven't been used for ages but we haven't heard of dead battery packs? Or have we? Only a guess, but the Prius is a hybrid so may not have the same problem as the Tesla, which relies totally on battery power. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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