Electric Car Owners Confront a Harsh Foe: Cold Weather

In freezing temperatures, the batteries of electric vehicles can be
less efficient and have shorter range, a lesson many Tesla drivers in
Chicago learned this week.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/17/business/tesla-charging-chicago-cold-weather.html

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On 2024-01-17, JAB <[email protected]d> wrote:

Electric Car Owners Confront a Harsh Foe: Cold Weather

Carry a spare? ;)

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On Thu, 18 Jan 2024 17:21:27 GMT, Retrograde
<[email protected]d> wrote:

Carry a spare?

For Teslas, batteries must be brought up to some temperature, which
can take some 30 minutes.

In other words, many owners don't RTFM....and then complain.

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