Actually, it seems to me the article doesn't really contradict the accusation at all. There is a fundamental problem when any rechargeable battery is discharge

Actually, it seems to me the article doesn't really contradict the accusation at all. There is a fundamental problem when any rechargeable battery is discharged and then left to sit for months. Any boat owner understands that that's why you plug in a trickle charger when the craft is put into storage. The line above indicates, on the contrary, that yes, if you don't drive it for a while and it wasn't plugged in to a sufficient power source, your car will in fact be bricked, and potentially damage its batteries. Apparently this is a problem with boats too, but that doesn't change the fact that it's a problem with electric cars. This "response" is in fact full of double speak... Check this one out: Another error on the part of the blogger is the claim that if the cars discharge fully, the battery packs will be damaged. This is blatantly false. The battery management system of the Tesla Roadster keeps the battery from being discharged to a damagingly low state of charge under normal driving conditions. "This is blatantly false"......."under normal driving conditions". The original article was not talking about normal driving conditions. This reads like a deliberate attempt to mislead. If anything, it seems to me that this article validates the claims made in the other article. It states: This is the most likely explanation for the five "bricks" that the blogger claims to have heard about. They probably aren't actually bricks, but cars in need of servicing. This is hardly the kind of certainty-filled rebuttal that one would expect if the original article's claims were, in fact, incorrect.