Tesla owners find that batteries don’t work in cold weather.
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This week’s frigid winter conditions exposed the shortcomings of certain electric vehicles, particularly Teslas. In the Oak Brook suburb of Chicago, Illinois, where temperatures have routinely dipped way below freezing, local media reported public charging stations turning into “car graveyards” because motorists were unable to power their vehicles.
“We got a bunch of dead robots out here,” quipped another, while Kevin Sumrak landed at Chicago O’Hare International Airport on Sunday night to find his Tesla unresponsive. He had to hire a tow truck and drove around looking for a charging station that worked in the freezing cold.
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Later: I suspected this story was written by a Brit because it treats sub-freezing as EXTREME COLD. MSN didn’t source it, but it turns out to be from UK Telegraph, so my suspicion was correct. In Britain anything under 64 is FRIGID, and anything over 66 is BURNING BURNING CLIMATE EMERGENCY.
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