EV Owner Stranded At Supercharger Station After Cold Weather Deadens Battery

[rangerrebew]

WRITTEN BY TYLER DURDEN ON DEC 26, 2022. POSTED IN LATEST NEWS

EV Owner Stranded At Supercharger Station After Cold Weather Deadens Battery

dashboard errorBesides freezing door handles, Tesla owners who braved the cold this Christmas weekend were met with ‘winter range anxiety.’ As we explained last week, cold weather will degrade battery performance.

At least one video went viral on Christmas Eve of a person whose Model S wouldn’t charge in the cold at a Supercharger station.


Domenick Nati, 44, a resident of Lynchburg, Virginia, rolled into a Supercharger station Saturday afternoon with 19 miles left of charge. [emphasis, links added]

The Tesla’s dashboard showed outside temperatures were 19 degrees Fahrenheit. He made a video about his awful experience over the last 24 hours.

https://climatechangedispatch.com/ev-owner-stranded-at-supercharger-station-after-cold-weather-deadens-battery/

[sneakypete]

My heart pumps warm urine for him.

[Free Vulcan]

I am sorry he was a victim of his own virtue signaling stupidity.

[mountaineer]

Meanwhile, in St. Louis, an EV went up in flames in the middle of the night while parked in a garage. 

[Hoodat]

You would think that a person would do a bit more research before plopping down $60 grand for a car.  Filling a tank with gas would have taken about 2 min.

[GtHawk]

You would think that a person would do a bit more research before plopping down $60 grand for a car.  Filling a tank with gas would have taken about 2 min.

I think your about 40k light on the price of a Model S, but that just increases the derision of the person with more money than common sense.

[sneakypete]

I think your about 40k light on the price of a Model S, but that just increases the derision of the person with more money than common sense.

@GtHawk

Maybe he could burn some of his pocket change to keep warm?

[Smokin Joe]

@GtHawk

Maybe he could burn some of his pocket change to keep warm?

Those plastic cards don't put off heat for very long...

[GtHawk]

Those plastic cards don't put off heat for very long...

Not the cards, the paper bills for the cards. The guys still gonna freeze to death but he'll be freezin in style in his Tesla Model S

[Smokin Joe]

So now, being a mite afraid of severe exposure (or just freezing to death) is "winter range anxiety"?

How about some other anxieties we could have out there?

How about "extended vertical travel" anxiety for those who feel a twinge at the thought of falling off a cliff?

How about "insufficient hydration anxiety" for someone stuck in the desert without water?

Or "lack of nutrition anxiety" instead of worrying about starving to death.

We could even have "wind chill anxiety" for those who can freeze to death on their doorstep.

As anyone who has survived such a predicament can say (those who didn't aren't talking much), facing a potentially lethal situation is no small matter.

To write off the rational fear that such predicaments can lead to death as a mere "anxiety" does justice to neither those who possess that rational fear, nor the situations they have a perfectly justified reason to avoid.

[Cyber Liberty]

So now, being a mite afraid of severe exposure (or just freezing to death) is "winter range anxiety"?

How about some other anxieties we could have out there?

How about "extended vertical travel" anxiety for those who feel a twinge at the thought of falling off a cliff?

How about "insufficient hydration anxiety" for someone stuck in the desert without water?

Or "lack of nutrition anxiety" instead of worrying about starving to death.

We could even have "wind chill anxiety" for those who can freeze to death on their doorstep.

As anyone who has survived such a predicament can say (those who didn't aren't talking much), facing a potentially lethal situation is no small matter.

To write off the rational fear that such predicaments can lead to death as a mere "anxiety" does justice to neither those who possess that rational fear, nor the situations they have a perfectly justified reason to avoid.

I've been lamenting the branding of people worried about vehicle range as mentally ill since I first heard of "range anxiety."  Finally, someone agrees with me.

[DB]

We are rapidly devolving... And with it our standard of living... All on the alter of the elite who know best without requiring any evidence they actually know anything.

[sneakypete]

We are rapidly devolving... And with it our standard of living... All on the alter of the elite who know best without requiring any evidence they actually know anything.

@DB

They know how to herd sheeple.