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Chicago-area Tesla charging stations lined with dead cars in freezing cold: ‘A bunch of dead robots out here’ (nypost.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] Serinus 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I had one for three years. I doesn’t go from 50% to 0 in minutes.

When you start the car, it’ll adjust to charge on temp. She. The cars warms up, you’ll show the full charge.

What kills the battery is running the heat. You’ll get about a 30% range decrease running the heat.

I’ve fast charger in weather like this. Unless you preheat the battery, it can take awhile to get going. It’ll eventually charge, just has to heat the battery.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What kills the battery is running the heat. You’ll get about a 30% range decrease running the heat.

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

For heating the cabin.