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A Tesla owner says he was locked out of his EV after its 12-volt battery died amid the Texas heat

https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-owner-locked-out-12-volt-battery-died-heat-2023-7

The Tesla owner said getting stuck in his driveway was "annoying as hell," and he tried everything from hosing the car down to jumping the battery.

A Tesla owner says he was locked out of his EV after its 12-volt battery died amid the Texas heat

3 comments

valkyre09

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Initially I was like, big deal - your 12v died, it’s happened to us all. Then I realised the complaint was he couldn’t even get in to the car to roll it back out of the way.

Surely if that was the case there should have been some way to get access to the 12v bay to either jump start or replace the battery? How did the engineers get access?

Maybe an oversight with design?

cyberic

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There is a way to get to it through a panel om the front bumper.

Link to the owners manual

cyberic

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There is a way to access the 12V battery without power

Link to the Model 3 owners manual