Comments on: Back to the Drawing Board for Morpheus the Green Spacecraft http://cleantechnica.com/2012/08/13/nasa-sustainable-spacecraft-morpheus-crash-lands/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Sun, 28 Dec 2014 12:25:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Bob_Wallace http://cleantechnica.com/2012/08/13/nasa-sustainable-spacecraft-morpheus-crash-lands/#comment-129457 Tue, 14 Aug 2012 16:32:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=41295#comment-129457 Tesla doesn’t have a bricking problem.

Tesla owners who don’t follow instructions have a bricking problem. Buyers are informed to not leave the car totally discharged for any length of time. They even have to sign a page that tells them that.

Now Tesla has gone another step and given the cars the ability to call for help when the owners Homer out….

]]> By: AltairIV http://cleantechnica.com/2012/08/13/nasa-sustainable-spacecraft-morpheus-crash-lands/#comment-129441 Tue, 14 Aug 2012 11:06:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=41295#comment-129441 Pardon me, it was the Volt that caught fire in testing.  Tesla has the “bricking” problem

]]> By: AltairIV http://cleantechnica.com/2012/08/13/nasa-sustainable-spacecraft-morpheus-crash-lands/#comment-129439 Tue, 14 Aug 2012 11:04:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=41295#comment-129439 I’ve already seen crank “criticisms” of this elsewhere, about how we can “apparently” put a lander on Mars, but can’t keep a simple test machine like this going on Earth.  But of course they ignore that this exactly why it’s a *test* machine.   One purpose of testing is to discover possible points of failure early, so that the final product doesn’t.  So even in destruction, Morpheus was doing exactly what it was supposed to do.

The Tesla battery fire story was exactly the same.

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