Tesla owner uses emergency solar to trickle charge battery in desert

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2 pointsasymmetric2 comments

As someone who doesn't own an EV, I don't understand what this post is trying to tell me.

He used the panel, and later a generator from a road crew, to stop his battery from shutting down before he was able to get towed.

If I had a gas car, I would stop my car and try to find a tow truck.

It seems like an ICE owner would be in the exact same situation without the need to deploy solar panels or talk to a road crew.

The article doesn't say why he needed to keep his battery from shutting down - was it to prevent an EV-specific failure mode, or was it so he could keep running the AC?

Yeah, I agree, that's a little baffling. The article is trying to make the case that with a solar panel, an EV won't leave you stranded if you run out of charge. However, I don't think that the incident they're talking about is an example of that at all.

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