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Arizona toddler rescued after getting trapped in a Tesla with a dead battery (www.theverge.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/arizona

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[–] ch00f 9 points 5 months ago

Not an Elon fan, but this kind of story hurts the public perception of EVs which bothers me.

This is not unique to Teslas or even EVs.

You can get stuck in a stock Corvette since 2005

That was after 3 seconds of googling. There are plenty of cars that are difficult to escape or enter with a dead battery. Some consider electronic door controls as a luxury feature. They will fail to function with no power. Hate them if you like.

For Teslas in particular, there is a mechanical latch for the doors on the inside. Learn where they are. On the outside, there are terminals near the tow hook that when given 9V will pop the frunk. Then you can access the 12V battery to jump it.