You probably read the stories of cars in Chicago having trouble with cold batteries and more.
While that was happening I was taking a Tesla road trip through snowy south Utah, which is perhaps the best road trip destination in the lower 48, but it has no superchargers in the center and a few around the edges.
It worked out fine, in the frozen weather, because the right way to charge is at hotels, not superchargers, and this is what I did.
So this new Forbes article discusses:
While that was happening I was taking a Tesla road trip through snowy south Utah, which is perhaps the best road trip destination in the lower 48, but it has no superchargers in the center and a few around the edges.
It worked out fine, in the frozen weather, because the right way to charge is at hotels, not superchargers, and this is what I did.
So this new Forbes article discusses:
- Why hotel charging is much better than supercharging, especially in the cold
- Why all the effort focusing on fast charging, while not bad, puts too much emphasis on the wrong thing
- How hotel charging should work and how it should be billed for (if it is billed)
- Details on the road trip to tell you places to stay and charge
Chicago EVs Froze As I Did An Easy Two Week Tesla Trip In Snowy Utah
Do EVs work in the cold? Read about a long trip in snowy Utah, and how the best place to charge is at hotels, and how that should work
www.forbes.com