It appears that nobody in Chicago knows proper care and feeding for their EV.
Not just Tsla.
Not just Tsla.
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What's all the hubbub about charging in Chicago?
- Thread starter Lance From Jax
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TLDR: Many people without home charging were using Superchargers due to the extreme cold. The cold made charging slower for everyone, combined with more cars trying to charge created very long lines. Some superchargers were malfunctioning due to electrical issues/ice, and a few Teslas had to be towed away from lack of charge. Situation at CCS stations were even more dire as rideshare drivers, slow charging Bolts, and broken stations all contribute to insane lines.
seems very blown out of proportion, media hit piece. Somehow it went from a supercharger issue to Teslas dont work in the cold.
Per usual, although the article I read in the NYT did mention Chevy Bolts as well.
The best response I have heard to this is "EV's, in particular Teslas, have been the best selling cars in Norway for about 5 years now. "
Doesn’t seem like it. See these:
Chicago area superchargers failing in cold
News story Seems like they can't handle the -15 fahrenheit temperatures. I had no problem the day before across the Wisconsin border when it was -7. Lucky I'm not traveling now. Anyone have details why they are failing?
teslamotorsclub.com
Chicago area superchargers failing in cold
Fortunately it is just 3 out of the roughly 13 stations around Chicago that are completely down (depending on zoom). But yes, Tesla should say something about this. I’ve driven through Chicago a few times with my Tesla but always charge well outside the area. I suspect a lot of this is from...
teslamotorsclub.com
boulder.dude
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https://www.uber.com/us/en/drive/vehicle-solutions/hertz/ has a learn more link that leads to https://www.uber.com/us/en/drive/vehicle-solutions/hertz/tesla/.No offense, but using an EV as an Uber/Lyft vehicle probably isn’t a good proposition in Chicago winters.
Also learned of https://www.axios.com/2024/01/16/uber-tesla-incentives-data, the other day.
Terrible idea to use EVs as ride share at this point in time. Maybe in 10 years when there's 10x more L3 chargers and almost everyone has overnight parking with L2 charging.
Tesla has not commented on the Chicago situation.
Tesla vehicles provide pop-up charging tips to new drivers, as well as pop-up suggestions and other information about battery conditioning and charging.
That was likely part of the problem. New users not knowing about navigating to Superchargers. Others not giving it enough time to heat up the battery (it can take an hour).
There were reports of some not working. Some connectors had snow and ice in them, so they wouldn’t insert into charge ports. It’s likely that some people claimed they “weren’t working” because their cars were heating the battery before initiating battery charging.
I haven’t heard any reports of cars not functioning aside from dead batteries. The cars perform well deep into the negatives.
Not that I know of.
djec65fb
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Just a low effort media hit piece to generate clicks. No one is talking about how gas pumps also froze and there was a 6 day delay on tow trucks at the same time.
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