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by rnk 1019 days ago
I agree these situations can be dangerous and frustrating. There is a manual trunk release on the tesla, here's a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1bJ0F3R0Nc.

I have a rivian and the 12v battery died on it while I had it plugged in charging at home. In the manual I found the emergency trunk release (access from underneath the car), and then there was a manual release for the charging port inside the frunk.

My gas cars have died with some electrical problem before, out in the boonies where there was no one to help. But that was back when all my cars had a key, so I could at least open the door with physical key.

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Many EVs still have a physical key to open the car (my EV6 and my wife's ID.4 both do for example)
Well that's great, my Tesla and my rivian do not have physical keys, and I wish they did.
Not the trunk, the frunk. That's where the fuses are located on the Tesla Model Y isn't it? Or were the videos I watched were wrong?