Discharged batts tend to freeze and crack. Get out your checkbook for $20 thousand to replace batts.
Do you get extra Virtue points for replacing the battery?
*** checkbook for $20 thousand to replace batts. ***
And just where are they going to chuck the haz-batts?
Hmmm. If so how they going to outfit those electric airplanes?
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.
Lead acid batteries can freeze and crack. Trying to charge lithium-ion batteries in subzero temperatures can severely damage the cells. Tesla cars will theoretically not charge the battery until the cells have been warmed up to a safe temperature. This can take hours at a charging station and if it is too cold the heaters may not be able to get the battery to a temperature that is high enough to charge it.
Chicagoan trying to charge his Tesla.