Chicago-area Tesla charging stations lined with dead cars in freezing cold: 'A bunch of dead robots out here'
Many Chicago-area Tesla owners were visibly frustrated on Monday after their electric vehicles failed to charge amid freezing temperatures.
Looks like the electric cars handle the cold weather quite well. :)
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Nothing to do with the temperatures, they’ve all just had the charging cables stolen.Chicago-area Tesla charging stations lined with dead cars in freezing cold: 'A bunch of dead robots out here'
Many Chicago-area Tesla owners were visibly frustrated on Monday after their electric vehicles failed to charge amid freezing temperatures.
Chicago-area Tesla charging stations lined with dead cars in freezing cold: 'A bunch of dead robots out here'
Many Chicago-area Tesla owners were visibly frustrated on Monday after their electric vehicles failed to charge amid freezing temperatures.
Tesla owners would be likely to have heated garages and home chargers, so there shouldn't be much of a problem in that regard. I'd also think there would be a market for a "wrecker service" that would be equipped with a charger and maybe a forced air heater of some sort to warm up the battery, for guys like the one whose car was dead after being left at the airport.
Chicago-area Tesla charging stations lined with dead cars in freezing cold: 'A bunch of dead robots out here'
Many Chicago-area Tesla owners were visibly frustrated on Monday after their electric vehicles failed to charge amid freezing temperatures.
Good, I'm glad the new Prius drivers are getting a taste of karma.
I’m sure you meant … Has everything to do with the temperature…
Chemical reaction rates change with temperatures… lower temperatures is a lower rate …
Recapture of braking energy is less efficient too when it it cold … thus decreases range.
Which is why unless you live in the southern part of this country you should really think this through before buying an electric vehicle.
Hot batteries have their negative sides too.
Not so much anymore, but used to be that extreme hot weather would kill batteries as much as cold weather.
Yes AGMs are better about not boiling off in the heat … Li+ batteries are operated with performance limitations when they get hot to improve life.
EV’s are a product only the well-off buy and then as a second vehicle. I think EV’s have a utilitarian value but the way they are subsidized, designed, built, and marketed doesn’t reflect that.Chicago-area Tesla charging stations lined with dead cars in freezing cold: 'A bunch of dead robots out here'
Many Chicago-area Tesla owners were visibly frustrated on Monday after their electric vehicles failed to charge amid freezing temperatures.
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Hybrids are what should have been more incentivized. They actually have a chance to capture a large part of the ICE market, but instead our knuckleheads in charge jumped straight to EV’s without the proper infrastructure or technology in place to adequately support them. It also incentivized automakers to go “all in” on developing these, which virtually all now regret & are having to cut back on production & sales projections. Again, had they incentivized hybrids there would be many more offerings than there are today, & we might be reducing fossil fuel consumption more significantly than a niche product like ev’s can provide.
