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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

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?

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I took the screen off my old dell laptop and turned it into a mini blade server with built in UPS. It ran for years. I have no doubt the battery was knackered by the end.

The only reason I replaced it with a Mac Mini 2012 was because it didn’t support usb3 and 4K video saturated the usb bandwidth.

Now my 2012 runs Ubuntu server + docker for those interested :)

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