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Shoppers get stuck in Westfield car park for 3 HOURS after Tesla runs out of battery on entry ramp​

Fuming trapped shoppers were venting their frustration online
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That must be Westfield Stratford then? I am not familiar with their car park.

The Westfield I usually use is White City / Shepherds Bush in West London, the entries are all dual-lane so I can't see how a single car can block the entrance there.

But in both Westfields there are Tesla Superchargers, so it seems that someone ignored the dashboard screaming at them that the battery charge is low, and tried to degy physics and make it to the Supercharger after the car was already showing 0%... instead of just using one of the many standard public chargers along the route when the car was at (say) 10%. Might have been one of those car with unlimited free charging for life.......
 
'"Considering the huge range these cars have, there’s really no excuse for this." One wrote.

"Especially as the cars still have quite a bit of range (10-20 miles) even after hitting 0%. The driver had plenty of warning." Another agreed.'
 
There's already mains electricity in these types of car parks for lighting. It shouldn't be beyond the wit of their owners to install suitably positioned (locked) 3 pin sockets and equip their attendants with extension cables to future proof against this eventuality.
 
Petrol Pete said:
Why should they ? are they expected to have cans of Diesel and petrol available in case someone runs out of fuel , Jump starter boxes for flattened batteries ?
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Because there's no such thing as 5 litre canister of electricity. And to save them from lost revenue when the facility is choked and no more cars can enter. And, to do the best for their customers who get detained when it happens. Good enough reasons for the car park managers to make the move - no?
Or be martyrs to the cause of ridiculing EV drivers who screwed up? That'll have to be pretty damn good to justify spending three hours on.
 
I wonder how many of the trapped kept their engines running for a lot of the time trapped , thereby negating all the savings made by the Tesla over it's lifetime. 🤔

Bellow has a point in #7 This kind of thing is going to happen more and more as we see more EV,s out there so something must be put in place at some point. Or maybe insist EV come with a built in disconnect coupling of some sort ? (adding weight and cost)

A 4x4 with a seized transfer case might have caused the same mess 🤷‍♂️.
 
The interesting bit for me was that the Tesla, when the battery is flat, goes into "parking mode" and can't be towed.

If that's true, and not just journalistic incompetence, then clearly that was a design decision which (on the face of it) it sounds like a daft one.
 
If this had happen in an accident or ending up sinking in water with an electric car, you'd be a dead fish drowning.
Lesson learned, don't buy an electric vehicle.
 
I can't seem to post the link to the article about how no ice vehicle had ever broken down right in the way of other people.
 
Or you could drive a 3.5 tonne transit van, on the 24th December at 4pm attempt to leave the spiral single lane exit of the glades shopping centre. Half way down the giant queue get completely overcome by salmonella. After an ambulance being called and finally being cleared 2 hours later :) Ask me how I know !
 
markjay said:
Might have been one of those car with unlimited free charging for life.......
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It’s a model 3 looking at the photo so won’t have free for life supercharging
 
Another pointless anti-EV article; as always it’s a driver error…. The car will still do a good 10 miles when showing 0% so no clue how this happened. What difference would it have been if it was a diesel car? They still need the air bleeding out once run dry etc.. 3 hours is a joke though they could have just run an extension cord and 10 mins would have had enough juice in the car to move it off the ramp… 🤦‍♂️
 
clk320x said:
...What difference would it have been if it was a diesel car? They still need the air bleeding out once run dry etc..
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Or someone who got stuck after misfueling the car... etc.
 
markjay said:
Or someone who got stuck after misfueling the car... etc.
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Exactly; it’s very much a driver error and I think blaming the EV tech is not fair in this case.

I drove my Mercedes today after a while… 150.9p for diesel at my local Tesco 😱😱😱 161.9 for Momentum 99… glad I sold my V8 🤣
 
Or get one of these '5 litre jerry cans full of sparks' !

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Portable electric vehicle chargers will be available next year

The power bank is the size of a compact suitcase with wheels and a retractable handle - and is lightweight enough to be stored in a car boot, or at home.
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