Tesla charging stations become ‘car graveyards’ as batteries die in subzero temperatures, abandoned cars left in the lot after cars wouldn’t charge::undefined
Tesla charging stations become ‘car graveyards’ as batteries die in subzero temperatures, abandoned cars left in the lot after cars wouldn’t charge::undefined
I was initially confused but after remembering how Americans cannot science and 0F =~ -18C this made a bit more sense.
My Tesla worked fine through several days of -35C though, but the battery efficiency was a bit shit. I think I spent something like 6-8% just to get the cabin warm, but starting the car or driving generally speaking was never a problem.
from what I understand from the article the problem is that people are queuing and because of long waiting times batteries die.
I honestly don’t understand why people are buying EVs if they don’t have the option of home charging.
Ooh, ok. That makes quite a lot of sense. Especially if one uses the miles/km number to show battery state, people are gonna get screwed by the cold. I changed that thing to percentages pretty soon after I got the car.
Yeah, that doesn’t make much sense.
From what I’ve seen/heard, people think they’re trying to beat the system by using which ever free network was included when they bought the car. Thus, never charging at home for the 2 free years.
Sigh that sounds awful. Like the biggest perk of evs is no more gas stations
Elektrek did some articles about this. The superchargers are overwhelmed because the grid cannot provide enough power. In the well known tropical paradise of Norway, no such problems occur.
Yeah I live in an area with winter weather. I still want an ev (and a subcompact one at that) but I live in an apartment without home charging so not yet. The wife and I have been discussing a plug in hybrid though basically as a “we need an internal combustion engine now and want an EV later, but don’t want it to be a car commitment away”
Are long waiting times really a thing? Here in Germany even the charging areas next to the autobahn have a maximum of 1-2 waiting cars if at all
The story I heard was that charging is taking far longer than usual because of cold batteries, and people are having to change much more frequently for the same reason, and between the two the demand for chargers has shot up
Why are people buying gas cars if they don’t have at home fueling?
gas cars generaly, from what I’ve been told, don’t use said gas while beeing shut off to keep the car in operational condition. But maybe yours is different.
Just because Americans grew up with and are largely stuck with the Fahrenheit system doesn’t mean they can’t science. Come on. It’s an inferior system of measurement, sure, but no one even in America uses Fahrenheit for science anyway.
(Don’t get me wrong, I wish we’d all switch to Celsius over here. I did. It’s so much better. But it took a WHILE to reach the point where it felt natural, and during that time involved a lot more math than the average human is willing to do. Converting systems of measurement that are ingrained in your culture is HARD.)
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It’s a rest of the world unit. Fahrenheit is only used by America, the Cayman islands and Liberia
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Ok, sorry for leaving them out. Americans and Brits cannot science.