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Originally Posted by kfs-4runner
So I have a question?
If you pull into 98% of the parking lots in the world and your Tesla battery is completely dead when you come back to your car, where do you put your key to open the door to get your phone you let on the passenger seat?
Or here is a worse scenario you wreck your Tesla. It catches on fire (never heard this happen to a Tesla) which will probably not be put out until it and everything inside of it is very crispy even if the fire department shows up. The people around you are idiots and try to open the doors and do not think about breaking the window until you are toast and the windows break themselves.
Just curious.
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I'll resurrect this thread.
1) The only way you'll come back to your car in a parking lot with a dead battery is if you leave it there a LONG time.. I'm talking weeks. "Vampire drain" is pretty minimal; usually about 1% charge per day. So if you plan to leave it at the airport for a month, just make sure you charge it up before you go.
Teslas do have something called Sentry Mode which records motion from the cameras and stores it on a USB stick. You may have seen videos of this on the internet of Tesla owners busting people who ding their cars in parking lots and leave. Sentry Mode uses a lot of power but it's automatically disabled at 20%. And if you're really worried, you can just disable Sentry Mode altogether.
There is no mechanical key on a Model 3. The backup key is a credit card with an NFC chip in it. If the battery is truly gone, you can pop the small cover for the tow hook off the front bumper and you'll find wires inside which you can connect to a 12V source. That'll be enough to get the doors open.
2) The Tesla is no more likely to become a giant fireball than an ICE vehicle full of flammable petroleum-based products. I wouldn't worry about getting burnt to a crisp.