A Tesla owner’s video went viral after he couldn’t get his Model S to charge at a Supercharger station in the cold.
Domenick Nati, a radio host in Virginia, was trying to charge his Tesla Model S last Friday ahead of his holiday travel, but he was having some issues.
It was reportedly 19°F – or -7°C – at the time.
Full article, HERE from Electrek!
Soooo, he tied up a charger for an hour, never got a charge, and doesn’t understand that batteries HAVE to be warm to take a charge? Did he not read the owner’s manual? And his ass got stranded. He’s trying to blame Tesla, but I wonder where those ‘other’ three fingers are pointing?
EVs have not fared well in 2022, first it was the EVs left of the side of I-95 in the cold earlier last year in Virginia in the massive traffic jam, car fire(s), repeatedly refiring down in Florida after getting water soaked in the hurricane, now, again, issues in the cold.
And speaking of cold, I have a question about those that froze to death in their cars in upper NY, how many of them were EVs? With no internal combustion engine, trying to ‘heat’ the car with battery power is going to be one helluva drain in an already bad situation…
But, the administration wants everyone to go out and buy one!!!
With a power grid that won’t support large numbers of EVs, inability to actually take a long distance trip (>500 miles) in a reasonable amount of time, lack of charging stations, etc. (like CA telling people not to charge their EVs during peak power draws).
I’ll stick with my gas engined vehicle, my Bible, and my guns, thank you very much…
I can’t believe anyone fell for the EV scam.
“I’ll stick with my gas engined vehicle, my Bible, and my guns, thank you very much…”
Good plan that. It got you here, changing for the sake of change does not make sense. EVs and their function troubles do not inspire any confidence in switching to them. One happy surprise – it sounds as if Ercot finally got their **** together as far as supplying power during a really cold front. I hope those effected by that have their power restored now.
I received a survey from my local electrical coop a couple of years ago regarding EV’s…what were my thoughts on them, would I consider purchasing one, etc… I replied something like “of all the absolutely useless things in the world I could possibly purchase, an EV would be at the very top of the list.” Seeing how “successful” EV’s have been since that time, my list has not changed.
I just watched a video on U-tube that showed a guy testing all the charging stations around Denver, Colorado during the storm (temps between 0F and -11F). The EV’s are not the only thing that needs to be warm to work. Over half of the charging stations wouldn’t connect to the cars computer to start the charging and the ones that did work were older hardware that were slower to charge. The newer, express chargers wouldn’t work in the cold, but the network showed them online and ready to be used. Another failure for the green crowd.
Regrettably, Jim, the ONLY firearm I had was lost in a tragic fishing accident over the Mariana Trench.
Hey Old NFO;
I noticed on our first cold snap several weeks ago while I was out on the ramp, even though my golf cart had a full charge and it was in the high 20’s the durn thing wouldn’t move. We had to get the gas golf cart to push the electric cart inside the hanger so it would warm up. That experience soured me on electric vehicles more than it already did.
If AOC thinks that it’s a good idea, it isn’t.
On the other end of the temperature spectrum, EV owners in Austin TX were driving around last summer with their windows open. Guess the batteries weren’t big enough to both get them there and run the a/c.
Worked one place where there was an electric (lead-acid batteries) pallet jack. It was on the dock and was NEVER, EVER to be brought into the main building. Until the two weeks of sub-zero highs and -40 lows. THEN it was brought into the main building — to keep the batteries warm.
The point of forcing people to use EVs is to limit their ability to travel. This will force many of those living in rural areas to move to the cities where they can be more easily controlled.
This. You can also say that about the loss of rural hospitals. Even if by natural economics, it is very convenient to the plan.
Up the block is a Tesla. During our cold snap it sat in the driveway. The owner has a 70’s Chev sedan that has been in the family since new. One guess as to what was driven during the cold snap.
All- Your points are well taken… WSF- ROTFLMAO! He knows…
I think that eventually something like an EV will be practical, but I have a few requirements –
1. Purchase price within 25% of the cost of a gas/diesel alternative
2. Battery life of 10 years, with a warrantee
3. Practical range of at least 300 miles, which the range on the sticker will have to be about 500 miles
4. Recharge from 0 to 100% in less than 30 minutes
5. Standardized chargers for all brands (not sure if that’s a thing yet)
6. All weather operation
Until then, yeah, most I’ll do is a hybrid, and only when the price on those come down a tad too.
Hey, Tom, must be in your 20s, right? You will have plenty of time to save your money for one that meets those requirements. 🙂
Me, well, I’ll never see them in abundance on the roads.
I have the same giggle for this that I had for my friend who had a tank full of diesel jelly one particularly cold snap.
Angus- Yep, that happens!!! Jet fuel will also ‘jelly’ if it is cold enough.
Tin Foil hat time? Is China behind the green movement? They control our media. This EV scam is more than I can tolerate. Cancel the whole greenie shit show and get back to abiotic oil.
Me too! No EV will be in my garage.
Yeah, living here in FL, I got a friend who lives in Key West. It’s ~157miles on the Overseas Highway just to Miami. Heck, I typically make a 200miles r/t run daily between a couple of cities here at least twice a month – and that’s not counting the driving around once I get there. Haven’t seen any ev that would let me do that. 500 miles range??? It is to laugh.
The EVs and hybrids on the various surplus auction sites go for almost nothing. Invariably they are up for auction because they have reached the end of their battery life. With the battery replacement cost, I suspect that most of the one that sell are being scrapped out. After all there is quite a bit of copper in them.
I live in the country and have relatives that are about 600 miles we go see sometimes, plus we get Cold weather in winter (like much of the country, we just had a week where it didn’t get above freezing). There is no way an EV makes sense. A gas-electric hybrid maybe, but I’m leery of those as well.
Some of my Liberal Friends (they’re fun to watch) fangirl over EV vehicles. I write out E=IR, hand it to them, and watch their eyes glaze over. To help them I’ll write out Volts= Ohms X Amps. Still nothing. Clearly public education has done its job well.
For your next round of Annoy-A-Liberal (my favorite sport) take a Liberal to the closest neighborhood transformer and ask ’em “How many EVs will that thing support?” Yeah, more eyes glazing over.
Maybe 10 years ago, IBM (I think) had a new battery design made of carbon nano-tubes. Claimed that a cell phone would charge in a few seconds, and a car battery in a minute or so. Said that they expected production to take about 7 years to get the bugs worked out.
What happened?
Hi Bubba… aka “Old NFO,”
Your last sentence on this thread say’s it all and I’m with ya’!!!!
The only “electric vehicle” I have is, well really, only a “BACK UP” a 40 lb. thrust Motor Guide Trolling motor that I use to putt-putt up on the lurking Bass in the Manchac Swamps and get me back to the boat Launch if “Need Be!!!!”
All I have is a 13’9″ Carolina strip (Cypress)Boat (Jon Boat plan form) with a beat up 2005 9.9 Merc. 4 stroke (rope start) that is a MISER on fuel consumption!!
Yeah, electrics have their place but it sure ain’t at the head of the Pack in a Ballz-Out race for the Blood!!!!!
Audentes, Fortuna, Iuvat!!!!,
skybill
PR-2, USN 1966-70.