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To: dynoman

this story does not add up.

If not juice, how did the car say it had several miles left?
Why not drag it onto a flatbed tow truck?

I remember back in the day all the articles written about another “SUV that rolled over and killed it’s occupants”.


8 posted on 09/05/2023 6:20:56 AM PDT by BereanBrain
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To: BereanBrain

Yeah, I can’t believe how much faith people put in the range estimate on gas cars too. I’m wanting to fill at 1/4.


12 posted on 09/05/2023 6:25:20 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: BereanBrain

Why didn’t 4-5 big guys just flip the car over to the bar-ditch? It might pi$$ off the owner but his insurance company would rather replace his vehicle than pay for any other accidents that were the result ...


20 posted on 09/05/2023 6:35:55 AM PDT by ByteMercenary (Cho Bi Dung and KamalHo are not my leaders.)
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To: BereanBrain
True that. It could have been drug onto a flatbed truck. It would have damaged the EV to drag it with the wheels locked, but it could be done.

Another thing is, just charge the 12V battery under the hood. The newer EV's like this one (and mine, thought not an expensive Tesla) have a 12V battery to power the cabin and such very much like an ICE car. Normally it's routinely recharged from the EV's main battery (to account for the fact that an EV doesn't have an alternator to charge the 12V battery like an ICE car does). But that doesn't happen when the driver drives it to empty. So the solution is to use jumper cables or a jumpstart battery to charge the 12V battery and you can turn the EV on and take it out of gear. It's as quick and easy as jumping off an ICE battery. For this reason I keep a jumpstart battery in the EV car just like I keep jumper cables in the ICE pickup.

52 posted on 09/05/2023 7:51:22 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: BereanBrain

CHET 99...when he wasn’t doing pitbull attacks...


53 posted on 09/05/2023 7:58:32 AM PDT by stylin19a (The #1 Golf rule you MUST follow: take car keys out of golf bag before throwing it into the creek)
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