[chopperk]

Discharged batts tend to freeze and crack. Get out your checkbook for $20 thousand to replace batts.

[bray]

Do you get extra Virtue points for replacing the battery?

[Surrounded_too]

*** checkbook for $20 thousand to replace batts. ***

And just where are they going to chuck the haz-batts?

[TermLimits4All]

Hmmm. If so how they going to outfit those electric airplanes?

[Chickensoup]

Is it that the cars are discharged and taking time to charge or that the cold is preventing a timely charge?

[Texas Fossil]

Yes. A disaster.

Don’t think many of the owners of the EV autos will own another. If their battery freezes and dies.

[fireman15]

Discharged batts tend to freeze and crack. Get out your checkbook for $20 thousand to replace batts.

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.