{"id":1752,"date":"2012-05-30T14:29:15","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T04:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.privatefleet.com.au\/?p=1752"},"modified":"2020-06-20T01:47:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T15:47:19","slug":"flat-battery-certainly-we-can-fix-it-sir-that-will-be-45000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/home\/flat-battery-certainly-we-can-fix-it-sir-that-will-be-45000\/","title":{"rendered":"Flat Battery? Certainly we can fix it, sir. That will be $45,000."},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh my God! How would you feel if you buy a new supercar, let the battery go flat and then get charged $45,000 to replace it?<\/p>\n

Hmm. Not happy, Jan.<\/p>\n

But that’s what’s happened to some owners of the new Tesla Roadster Electric Supercar.<\/p>\n

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The car costs around $200,000 in Australia, is fully electric, with a range in a single charge of 400kms. and will accelerate\u00a0 to 100kph in under 4 secs. which sure is supercar territory.<\/p>\n

In fairness the maker does make it clear that the battery must not reach full discharge and that there are numerous warning signals. Despite that some owners have had to face the unbelievable – ” I’ve got a brick!”, a totally immobile vehicle that cannot be started or even pushed to the side of the road.<\/p>\n

The owner is forced to pay around $45,000 to replace the entire battery – and possibly a lot more if the car fails far from its home base in the USA, like the unfortunate owner who suffered severe shipping delays when he imported his car to Japan and it arrived with a flat battery! It seems that neither Tesla’s new car warranty nor normal car insurance policies provide any protection for the unfortunate owner.<\/p>\n

The full story, including Tesla’s response can be seen here\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

BUT HERE’S THE GOOD NEWS! That’s not symptomatic of electric cars, though keeping a charge in the battery is much like keeping oil in the engine or petrol in the tank for a normal car. The first experience that\u00a0 local\u00a0 buyers will have for an appoachably-priced electric car will probably be the Nissan Leaf, scheduled for sale this month. It has already been launched overseas and has had a launch event here, supported by a really interesting and award-winning ad campaign- World Without Petrol\u00a0<\/a> (and it’s worth a click through), which will probably be used for the public launch in Australia.<\/p>\n

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THE GOOD NEWS is that if the battery does go flat it can be easily re-charged. There’s also plenty of warning that it’s running out of petrol-sorry, electricity. Finally, in some markets Nissan also offer a free ‘pick up and tow’ service, although that hasn’t yet been confirmed here (and Nissan HO were unavailable for comment). We’ll be telling you more about the new Nissan Leaf shortly, but it offers around 100-120 km range on a single charge, and it is expected that it will not need specialist charging points (it should be able to be done at home). It will be sold at a premium price to its petrol competitors at around $51,000. http:\/\/credit-n.ru\/zaymyi-v-ukraine.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh my God! How would you feel if you buy a new supercar, let the battery go flat and then get charged $45,000 to replace it? Hmm. Not happy, Jan. But that’s what’s happened to some owners of the new Tesla Roadster Electric Supercar. The car costs around $200,000 in Australia, is fully electric, with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1752"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12331,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions\/12331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}