Comment on Tesla charging stations become ‘car graveyards’ as batteries die in subzero temperatures, abandoned cars left in the lot after cars wouldn’t charge

• fosforus@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ooh, ok. That makes quite a lot of sense. Especially if one uses the miles/km number to show battery state, people are gonna get screwed by the cold. I changed that thing to percentages pretty soon after I got the car.

  I honestly don’t understand why people are buying EVs if they don’t have the option of home charging.

  Yeah, that doesn’t make much sense.

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  • MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    From what I’ve seen/heard, people think they’re trying to beat the system by using which ever free network was included when they bought the car. Thus, never charging at home for the 2 free years.

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sigh that sounds awful. Like the biggest perk of evs is no more gas stations

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• Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Elektrek did summer articles about this. The superchargers are overwhelmed because the grid cannot provide enough power. In the well known tropical paradise of Norway, no such problems occur.

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• captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah I live in an area with winter weather. I still want an ev (and a subcompact one at that) but I live in an apartment without home charging so not yet. The wife and I have been discussing a plug in hybrid though basically as a “we need an internal combustion engine now and want an EV later, but don’t want it to be a car commitment away”

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• SuperIce@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why are people buying gas cars if they don’t have at home fueling?

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  • lovesickoyster@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    gas cars generaly, from what I’ve been told, don’t use said gas to keep the car in operational condition. But maybe yours is different.

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    • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      While the post above yours is a bit of a hot take, the better answer is because it only takes 5 or 10 minutes to refuel your car. Which is why it would be a lot more difficult to use an EV if you couldn’t charge it at home.

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• tmjaea@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Are long waiting times really a thing? Here in Germany even the charging areas next to the autobahn have a maximum of 1-2 waiting cars if at all

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  • MartianSands@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The story I heard was that charging is taking far longer than usual because of cold batteries, and people are having to change much more frequently for the same reason, and between the two the demand for chargers has shot up

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