Posted on 12/29/2022 6:22:51 AM PST by Red Badger
Owning an EV is a lot like being a Dallas Cowboys fan.
Maybe the industry will make a better battery and maybe the Cowboys will make it to the Superbowl this year.............
We now own a BMW Z4.
It’s no better than the FIAT we had 30 years ago...............
While we’ve been saying this for years, I do find it interesting how many of these stories are not hitting the airwaves since Elon has strayed from the left.
If only he had brought his solar panels from home and could burn them to warm up the battery.
Meanwhile democrats are criminalizing gas-powered vehicles. Meanwhile there aren’t anywhere near enough charging stations nor charging capacity for all the EVs that will replace the gas-powered cars.
Heading for disaster. (But not the ruling elite. They will have fuel and working cars, while they make rules for the common herd.)
Expensive book end
I had a TR-4. At the time it was the constant class winner in SCCA races.
It offered me no problems
Go EV and you give up a lot of freedom ,LOL
Brilliant!
A Rolling power Pod.
Someone is Making Money !
It’s not a design flaw. It’s called physics
So, rent a car. That is an option.
"You're f____!"
After I start it, I can travel with my gas car without a battery.
Can’t drive an EV without a battery.
Just like thousands of others all at the same time. Worse, the rental car company would likely offer you another battery powered vehicle that no one else wanted to rent.
I expect to see suspicious car fires after such events.
The more EVs sold the more we’ll see EV RAGE
It’s a design flaw when there is no heater for the batteries which turns on when they are charging in cold weather, and keeps them warm enough to change, and thermal insulation which would allow the batteries to stay warm when driving (batteries do give off some heat when discharging (from internal resistance) which could keep them warm while driving)
There was a Freeper a few weeks ago who posted that Batteries can’t charge below freezing, etc, and I didn’t call him out on it (I have decided some time back I can’t police for disinforation everywhere all the time) but to be fair-it isn’t true that batteries like these cannot charge when they are below freezing.
What seems to be true is the Tesla software that handles charging seems to be poorly written, and at least in the case of the famous video mentioned, appears to not work when the battery is below freezing or something like that.
I bet there is a problem in the software or some sensor in his vehicle where it won’t begin charging until the charger heats up the battery in some way, and the sensor isn’t giving input that it can start charging.
Bottom line, it isn’t a physical property of LION batteries that they won’t charge below freezing, I have no doubt they will charge, except slower, and less efficiently at that temperature.
This is just a guess on my part as to the cause. I think a lot of people saw that and said “See! Proof batteries won’t charge below freezing!”
There are enough reasons to dislike EVs in their current iteration, but we should stick to the facts.
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