Posted on 01/16/2024 1:05:35 PM PST by bitt
Electric vehicle owners in the Chicago area have not been able to charge their overpriced method of transportation in the bitter cold this week, leaving scenes of dead electric cars littered across public charging stations.
It turns out buying a worthless car to virtue-signal for the environment has unintended consequences.
Fox Chicago reported Monday the charging stations have turned into electric car graveyards over the past two days as temperatures in the Windy City and its suburbs have dipped to the negative double digits.
One man, Tyler Beard, to the outlet he had been trying to recharge his Tesla at an Oak Brook Tesla supercharging station since Sunday afternoon.
Nothing. No juice. Still on zero percent. And this is like three hours being out here after being out here three hours yesterday.
But Beard was just one of dozens of Tesla owners trying and failing to power up their vehicles at this same Oak Brook charging station. Fox 32 Chicago noted the scene was reminiscent of long lines and abandoned cars at several other charging stations around the Chicago area.
Chalis Mizelle told the outlet she was forced to ditch her car and get a ride from a friend when it would not charge.
“This is crazy, it’s a disaster. Seriously,” she said.
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Is it that the cars are discharged and taking time to charge or that the cold is preventing a timely charge?
Yes. A disaster.
Don’t think many of the owners of the EV autos will own another. If their battery freezes and dies.
The EV battery has to be “preconditioned” before it will start charging e.g. it has to be warmed up to a certain temp before it will accept a charge.
> I just keep my gas full and my car starts right up. I must have a good battery. <
Automobile technology dating from the 1930s is a wonderful thing. 2024 technology, not so much.
Last April I got stuck behind an oil truck that exploded in Conneticut - You can read about it here....
https://www.wtnh.com/news/connecticut/new-london/fiery-crash-shuts-down-gold-star-bridge-in-groton/
Anyway, the place it happened on was a bridge with no exits so I was stuck in traffic for TEN hours. Finally we got to one exit and it was a long slog to get to the next highway.
Around 6 to 8 hours later driving literally 2 mph, then stopping and waiting, I started seeing cars on the side of the road abandoned. I thought they ran out of gas as we passed no gas stations. Then I saw more and more cars abandoned.
And then it hit me: They were all ELECTRIC cars!! Oops! What could they do, call a truck to come and charge them? Forget it, the traffic was too much. Do they walk to the nearest gas station and buy a battery? Nope. They had to leave them and say bye.
It’s too bad we didn’t have internet videos like this when they started up with 1.6 gpf toilets.
Vids of big ones slapping the sides of the bowl as they try to escape would’ve gone a long way to nipping this eco crap in the bud.
so now the taxpayer will have to foot the bill for new chargers, right?
if they had any chance of profitability, the ELECTRIC companies would be building them...
It's funny every time.
Have you heard about charging stations not working? 😂
A young lady in Sweden is weeping.
And you better live in southern California where low temps aren’t that frequent.
So far I have seen this story about Chicago only. Surely it is happening elsewhere? Duluth was like -9 and a lot of places are freezing cold. There must be tales to tell.
Anyone know?
Yeah...kinda hard to do when you are zero...
thank you
Have any of these people stopped to realize that;
Utopia does not exist,
EVs are neither "green" or "reliable",
EVs are not economically justifiable,
Or, that more government funding can NOT resolve any of this?
I just learned that one charging station consumes around 150 KW per hour. The average house hold consumes around 1.5 KW per hour, so one charging station is literally equal to 100 American households. Think of the coal required to produce that. Insane!
Have a client that runs a fleet of EV cabs (toyota). They get 300 miles in the city which lasts the entire day. And a fillup costs around $7 overnight when cab demand is low. There is less maintenance downtime and the battery is warranted longer than any gasoline vehicle (10 years 150k miles). Plus no more gasoline spills or exhaust fumes in their garage.
Many major fleets like Amazon are also going EV.
Long trips that require public recharging I agree are a nightmare with EVs. But if the range is enough for a typical day and cheap to recharge in a garage overnight, it makes alot of sense for many users
True that. Plus this story is in Chicago. In urban areas the true believer EV owners get one even if they have no place to charge at home (because they live in an apartment, or maybe they live in a house but have to park on the street). Thus the people at the charging stations are there for local driving (just like people filling up gas cars, most of the time you're doing it it's for local driving).
Unlike where I live in a somewhat rural suburban area in north central Alabama. Most EV owners here charge at home for most of their driving. The end result is there are few people at the fast road-side chargers near here (only the people traveling). Of all the 43K miles we put on our EV in the 19 months we've owned it, we had to wait in line only once (for 30 minutes) and that was the one road trip we had it up north driving through the New England states. Of course, before buying the EV I made sure my wife understood that if we ever decide to take a road trip up north in the winter it'd have to be in our old ICE pickup. LOL
To me it's crazy that the people who buy an EV for their religious warmageddon cult tend to be the people an EV is the least practical for. While us conservative Christians tend to shun EV's (even from a free market perspective) when we're the ones most liable to be in a situation where an EV is practical (married and need two cars anyway so one can be ICE and the other an EV, own your home and can set up a charger to charge at home, live far enough from town so that you have to drive a lot of miles and thus have enough gas savings in an EV to warrant the costs of owning an EV, live in the south where the cold weather hardly effects the EV, etc.)
Note to Tesla owners: to insure having a warm battery in the AM, Park your car on a LARGE manure pile! That’s what my Grandfather did with his Model A. Either that or at the top of a steep, long hill!
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