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  • GodFearinGunTotin

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    I would think that what she is doing is theft, so call the cops? Maybe not, if it's CA I don't think she can get $900 of electricity in her car, so it's like smash and grab shoplifting.
    She said her husband or boyfriend or whatever was a lawyer. If she’s telling the truth, he’s probably politically connected. That mght open up an adventure in fighting the machine he would not win.
     

    smokingman

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    She said her husband or boyfriend or whatever was a lawyer. If she’s telling the truth, he’s probably politically connected. That mght open up an adventure in fighting the machine he would not win.
    I would have called an electrician out that day to give me a breaker for the charger. It should have one already, somewhere? It has to have some kind of breaker protection right?
     

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    Images appeared on Dutch TV of a Mercedes-Benz, likely an EQE Sedan or EQS (they look the same at a distance) being hoisted off the ship. While it looks fine it is lowered into a steel bin and firefighters can be seen spraying water into the bin and steam rises. They then cover the bin with a tarp to cut off oxygen to the fire – a standard method accepted for fighting battery fires on EVs.

    I do not believe either way at the moment. True we are not certain of what caused the fire. But the gasoline/hybrid cars driving off down the ramp were not on fire. The BMW EV appears to have been at least heated to the point that the batteries burst into flame when enough oxygen was present. It leads me to think one of the BMW EV's was more than likely the source. Given the push in the EU media for everyone to drive an EV, I do not trust them when they say "likely not an EV" that started the fire.
    I mentioned the one car that may have been on fire when they pulled them off. That is not what started the fire on the ship. The fire was on the decks above where the EVs were stored. A fire that was hot enough to fuse cars to the ship according to reports. Yet only that one EV was reported as having any fire issues.
     

    Hawkeye

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    Mine locks in. Looks like Teslas have to buy a lock for theirs.
    I believe Teslas lock as well while charging. We rented one in November and the charging screen had an unlock tile while hte car was connected to the charger and we had to tap that to allow the plug to be removed.
     

    actaeon277

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    I believe Teslas lock as well while charging. We rented one in November and the charging screen had an unlock tile while hte car was connected to the charger and we had to tap that to allow the plug to be removed.
    If you have to use the adapter, it doesn't lock.
    Ir so I've heard.

    Unless you buy the special adapter
     

    BehindBlueI's

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    Another recall, government agencies hate non-unionized Tesla.

    Gov't keeps Tesla in business. Without subsidies and carbon credit schemes, what would their balance sheet look like? It's laughable, literally laughable, to think they are getting some special targeting for recalls because non-union given the number and size of recalls on the Big 3 and various foreign makers. Diesel cheating scandals ring a bell?
     

    Percolater

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    Gov't keeps Tesla in business. Without subsidies and carbon credit schemes, what would their balance sheet look like? It's laughable, literally laughable, to think they are getting some special targeting for recalls because non-union given the number and size of recalls on the Big 3 and various foreign makers. Diesel cheating scandals ring a bell?
    It’s almost like the boy cried wolf. Media screams “recall” and its font sizes fixed ota. I wake up and it’s corrected. Next one, “recall!” Same thing. One day it will be a real recall and nobody will care. Save it for a real recall like airbags don’t deploy or tires that disintegrated in heat aka Ford Firestone circa 2000.
     

    Percolater

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    It’s almost like they need a new term for recall when it doesn’t require physically going back to dealer. Maybe “update” or “Over The Air Software recall”?
     

    Percolater

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    NTSHA would be the government enforcer here, and it’s literally laughable to think all other vehicles would be ok with these recalls. Rupturing front brake hoses in Fords, but let’s focus on font sizes.
    Just had to write out my rant, thanks
     

    BehindBlueI's

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    It’s almost like the boy cried wolf. Media screams “recall” and its font sizes fixed ota.

    You clicked on it. Then you got so incensed by the injustice of it all you told other people so maybe they would click on it. Media did their job. It is not to inform you, it is to make money. Clicks in the attention economy = ad dollars. Will you remember they cried wolf next time and not click it to reward them for doing so? My news is so full of 'ignore this source' for that very reason, burn me once and eff off.

    The truth is often boring and nobody clicks boring links. So they spice it up with sex or controversy or whatever little dopamine rush they can. I say this from first hand experience, I've made the newspaper and didn't recognize the story was about me until I saw my name. I've had a ton of cases I was working that, same, didn't know it was that case until seeing a name.
     

    Ingomike

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