On 9/13/2012 4:56 PM, BAR wrote:

You would have thought that withe 100 years of effort you wouldn't run
into the bricking problem.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/au...tery-Failures-
Make-Bricking-a-Buzzword.html?pagewanted=all


Q. Can this problem be prevented?

A. Yes. Electric vehicles can use fail-safe systems, with multiple
features to guard against full discharge, said Tom Gage, chief executive
of EV Grid, a company focusing on energy exchange between E.V.s and the
electric grid. They include the ability to isolate the battery from any
loads (other than monitoring) when the charge gets low, use of a backup
12-volt battery and a separate “wake-up” function, sometimes using an
external 9-volt battery, that can restart the vehicle’s systems. “At
this point, the battery must be slow-charged back to health, but it is
fully recoverable,” Mr. Gage said.



http://www.tgdaily.com/games-and-ent...1-107k-fisker-
karma-bricks-during-testing

That's not an unrecoverable battery failure, it's an undefined breakdown.