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It would likely have software limited range in order to protect the batteries from continuous near-flat experiences. I don't know about lithium ion, but when a conventional lead acid battery goes low in charge the fluid gets less and less conductive, to the point of being basically water when you have a 0v battery. This is not good for the health of the battery.
But when it comes to the safety of the owner vs the health of the car, it's even a good marketing decision to allow your cars to 'sacrifice themselves' to reliably get the owners out of harms way in an emergency. I'm willing to bet there will be a *very* small failure rate from this one-off incident and Tesla looks like the good guys.
Oh wait, turns out the 60kw/h is software limited 75kw/h packs. odd... (I am now 100% convinced that if Tesla are doing this with battery packs that are known to be expensive, apple is doing this do iPhone memory (and memory is cheap)
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