“as the recent Arctic freeze left their door handles frozen shut”
Like frozen door handles never happened before EV’s!
Back door to my house froze last week.
As someone here on FR posted, a lot of these articles have more to do with Musk/Twitter than the car.
At least with older cars-—you could could use match/lighter to warm up key to unlock the door-—
Tesla handles are a little different.
They are flush with the door surface and they are electronic............
Maybe so, but I can put gas in my car no matter what the temperature is. This charging issue should have been obvious, and it is a fatal flaw. Example: My outdoor security cameras, which use lithium ion batteries, are designed to disable charging when the temperature is below freezing, and they stop working completely below about -4 deg F. The reason is that charging lithium ion batteries at temps below freezing will damage them, permanently reducing their capacity, and potentially making them dangerous to use after that.
Unless a completely different battery technology is developed, one that is extremely safe and that can be charged in no more than five minutes, EVs will remain an impractical and even dangerous fetish of the envirowackos and virtue signalers.