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TELSA charges its cars, just don't forget to charge them.
Don't let your electric car stop too long.
By the time you come back, it may have turned into a $200,000 brick.
Electric car maker Tesla defended his car's claim that it could not charge when the battery was completely dead.
This causes the cost of battery replacement to be about 1-
The car is priced at $206,000, ranking fifth.
Tesla owners in the United States have parked vehicles with low battery power for a week, and they find that their cars have become "bricks" that cannot be charged ".
Jay McCormack, Tesla Australia's national sales and marketing manager, said battery maintenance was interpreted as part of the company's customer handover and the car issued some warnings about the need to charge.
"We explain the advice to maintain the battery through the customer ownership experience," he said . ".
"Like all cars, they need a certain amount of care.
For us, electric cars should be plugged in and charged when not in use, this is to get maximum performance, all batteries will be damaged when they are at low level for a long time, more than a week
"The only electric car sold in Australia now is Mitsubishi's small I-MiEV.
With several new models coming out this year, the trickle will soon become a steady trend. The i-
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries 10-covers MiEV
The power system warranty is one year or 100,000 km years, but the warranty period of what the company calls "main power (traction) battery" is five or 100,000 km years.
Ashley Sanders, product manager for Mitsubishi electric vehicles, said
MiEV is unlikely to encounter problems with Tesla.
"Our design is completely different from that of Tesla," he said . "
"Our understanding is that they don't have the same 12-
Like we did in the car.
In our car, all the auxiliary equipment is from 12-volt battery.
"In terms of the main traction battery, in terms of lithium
If you make it completely zero, it will effectively become a brick.
"We already have systems that don't allow this to happen, except for a long time, years, not weeks or months.
Nissan Australia spokesman Jeff Fisher said there was no battery problem with its electric vehicle, Leaf.
"We have a situation, 12-
The Volt battery is dead, lithium.
The ion battery is low.
We replaced 12-
He said: "There is a series of warnings before the main drive battery is too low, and then it becomes lame --home mode.