Fact Or Fantasy? Could Terrorists Mount An Attack Using Legions Of Teslas?

It's a calm Saturday morning in August of next year. Suddenly, across the nation, 12,000 Tesla Model S sedans start up at the same time. They engage Tesla's vaunted autopilot feature and head out onto the road. Some of them make their way to local gas stations. Some to electrical substations. And then, as they approach, they accelerate to top speed. The explosions are fantastic as the Model S batteries rupture and spark fires, which ignite anything flammable in the area. The power grid in the Los Angeles area is brought down almost immediately. Hundreds of fires rage. America is under attack. This might sound like science fiction. It's not.
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TheSteve - 1/18/2018 3:03:39 PM

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This is merely fear mongering. Why would terrorists invest the money, time, and effort to hack Teslas, when there are cheaper, easier ways to get their way?

LexSucks - 1/18/2018 3:26:30 PM

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Could there be anything that Americans cannot be made afraid of?

MDarringer - 1/18/2018 7:50:44 PM

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Yet another reason to ban Teslas.

vdiv - 1/20/2018 12:21:39 PM

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mre30 - 1/19/2018 11:44:45 AM

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So here's another non-nonsensical Tesla tidbit of information...

My friend who has the good fortune to have a thriving business, a wonderful family, and who has four homes around the country, has owned three Tesla's and currently has two - a Model S and a Model X. He likes them.

However, one reason that he thought he liked them was because he could theoreticall leave them "plugged" in at one of his homes while he was not there expecting that they would be "good to go" once he returned.

It turns out that when you charge your Tesla battery via the plug-in, that battery powers the propulsion system and some other things, but that there is a separate "car battery" that operates things like the the door locks and some other things and which IS NOT connected to the propulsion battery. That "car battery" only charges when the vehicle is operating, not when it is sitting.

So, you get a situation where your Tesla has a fully charged battery but it is not operational because the ancillary battery is dead.

My friend has now ditched his Model X (car he keeps in Florida) because it was frequently "dead" and he replaced it with a Porsche Cayenne Plug-In Hybrid. Besides getting $20,000 off sticker (Porsche is dealing on ALL their hybrids to get the fuel economy credits) the Porsche is wired differently such that if it is "plugged in" - everything gets charged!

When Tesla implodes, Porsche will be there to pick up the pieces.