Chicago-area Tesla charging stations lined with dead cars in freezing cold: ‘A bunch of dead robots out here’
https://nypost.com/2024/01/16/news/chicago-area-tesla-charging-stations-lined-with-dead-cars-in-freezing-cold-a-bunch-of-dead-robots-out-here/Open linkView original on sh.itjust.works
First, nothing from the New York Post is true.
Second, don't run your car to zero battery in the winter. It needs enough charge to warm up before charging.
Battery performance tends to drop off extremely quickly once it drops below a certain temperature. Like, one minute it still says 50% charge left, the next it's dying.
If you aren't used to dealing with amount of cold I could see it catching you by surprise on your commute or something.
Thank you. It's hard to get unbiased information when it comes to Teslas, and I'm not entirely familiar with how the battery behaves.
But I don't need to know much to be more of an authority on a subject than the New York Post.
Heat to keep the driver alive when it's below zero, or heat to keep the car happy? That's a crazy range drop for something so critical.
It's being reported elsewhere, too.
If true, that's a LOT of people who apparently run their battery down to zero. I don't ever recall seeing gas stations full of people who've all suddenly run out of gas.
Seems like a flaw in how the battery stats are being reported, likely being over reported, knowing the history of Tesla. But the volts don't lie! Voltage sag in the winter is real, and these cars should be letting their drivers know well ahead of time to charge up (before it even gets to 50%).
Do charge times increase when it’s cold?
Tesla Tipping should totally become a thing. Like geriatric tortoises.