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.
Yeah...kinda hard to do when you are zero...
thank you
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.)