Desperate Tesla owners in and around Chicago were seen trying to charge their vehicles with no luck amid frigid temperatures that have gripped the Midwest. Charging stations have essentially turned into car graveyards in recent days as temperatures have dropped to the negative double digits, Fox Chicago reported. "Nothing. No juice. Still on zero percent," Tyler Beard, who had been trying to recharge his Tesla at an Oak Brook, Illinois Tesla supercharging station since Sunday afternoon, told the news outlet. "And this is like three hours being out here after being out here three hours yesterday." Beard and several other Tesla owners were trying to charge their cars amid long lines and abandoned cars at other Tesla charging stations in the Chicago area, the news station reported. "This is crazy. It’s a disaster. Seriously," said Tesla owner Chalis Mizelle. Mizelle said she abandoned her car and got a ride from a friend after hers would not charge. "We got a bunch of dead robots out here," one man said. Kevin Sumrak told the Fox station that he landed Sunday night at Chicago O'Hare International Airport and found his Tesla dead and unable to start. He was forced to hire a flatbed tow truck to haul the vehicle to a working charging station. https://www-foxbusiness-com.cdn.amp...zing-cold-a-bunch-of-dead-robots-out-here.amp I still recall the bloody Blizzards in Chicago....Unreal.
Strangely enough, Tesla is the best selling brand in Scandinavia where multiple studies have come out debunking some media spin that EVs don't work well in the cold. This situation in Chicago is definitely worth investigating.
Other than charging stations, is there another way to charge up a Tesla? Generator? Though I find it amusing to haul around gas generator to charge up batteries.
Depends on the specific region. The north near Finland can get much colder than Denmark. We had so far only once -20. Lots of snow tho. Meanwhile :
It's a reality that in states where gas is cheapest and electricity is expensive, running a gas vehicle will be equivalent or even less costly than an EV. However, as more drivers switch to EVs, particularly in areas where it's cheaper to run them, demand for gas will shrink. Suppliers will lower gas prices until they operate at a loss, then shut down supply. Or, they will raise gas prices which will accelerate the switch to EVs. Either way it means fewer gas stations. The same will happen to garages that only work on ICE vehicles. The loss of convenience will push people towards EVs. In Europe, where gas prices are very high because of taxes and cost of import, the switch to locally made electric is a no brain decision. Yet I have no doubts that at some point after 2035, 10-15 years later, taxes will creep to within 10-20% of what gas prices were. Hopefully by then that electricity will be mostly green produced...
Crooked media will say anything you want for a price. The simple fact is Arrhenius equation clearly predicts this problem for chemical batteries. https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshe...he_Arrhenius_Law/6.2.3.01:_Arrhenius_Equation Sure you can get some hacks to claim basic physics/chemistry doesn't matter but those of us who design things that actually have to work for a living know better. As a bonus, running the heat in your ev consumes power too so you get to choose between cutting you range even further or freezing your ass off.
I thought so too but not really. In the coming days the weather in Chicago and Oslo is nearly the same, Oslo being a bit colder. Next days lows for Chicago are -13c to -19c and Oslo -16c to -20c. I won't even mention the upper half of FInland or Sweden which have lows of -25c.
Why Norway — the poster child for electric cars — is having second thoughts https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23939076/norway-electric-vehicle-cars-evs-tesla-oslo