Brand new Electrify America stations don't work in the cold
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Another long video from Out of Spec, but TL;DR - new EA hardware faults out in the cold (-6F). Older EA cabinets worked, EVGo cabinets worked, new ChargePoint had a fault, old ChargePoint worked. The older EA stuff had issues in the heat, but cold was no problem
Edit: Tesla superchargers worked without a problem when he tested with his S earlier in the day (also -6F)
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Electric cars won't be viable for most people until there's a massive investment in charging stations other than Tesla's. And I don't see that happening in the US anytime soon. There's just not any appetite in either the public or private sector for a big long-term infrastructure investment.
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People I know with geothermal are having issues and heat pump users are screwed. They have been using gas to help systems catch up
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Big reason why I would still lean heavily towards a Tesla...
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I have a heat pump, keep it set at 68 degrees or so in the winter, and have reasonable electric bills ($90 or less), even in the dead of winter. They are as low as $20 during months of mild weather.
As I understand it, BEV vehicles are also equipped with heat-pumps.
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Electric charging stations don't work in the cold? I'm shocked (but evidently not when below -6)!
Electricity, particularly in relation to batteries and charging, is fickle. Not the type of issues you want to deal with in dangerously cold weather. Your life could depend on it!
Electricity, particularly in relation to batteries and charging, is fickle. Not the type of issues you want to deal with in dangerously cold weather. Your life could depend on it!
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Electric charging stations don't work in the cold? I'm shocked (but evidently not when below -6)!
Electricity, particularly in relation to batteries and charging, is fickle. Not the type of issues you want to deal with in dangerously cold weather. Your life could depend on it!
Electricity, particularly in relation to batteries and charging, is fickle. Not the type of issues you want to deal with in dangerously cold weather. Your life could depend on it!
Teslas work just fine, the same channel tested Teslas SC at something crazy like -25c or less and they worked just fine.
Anyway, using 3rd party EV charging often has broken charging anyway, not great right now anywhere in the world.
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My comment was in part tongue-in-cheek, but it was in response to the thread title: "Brand new Electrify America stations don't work in the cold." I wasn't condemning all charging stations. That said, electricity and extreme cold don't mix well. Extreme cold will affect all EV's to some degree. Personally, I would prefer to be stranded in a blizzard in an ICE vs an EV.
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not really. particular type of charging station from one brand does not work.
Teslas work just fine, the same channel tested Teslas SC at something crazy like -25c or less and they worked just fine.
Anyway, using 3rd party EV charging often has broken charging anyway, not great right now anywhere in the world.
Teslas work just fine, the same channel tested Teslas SC at something crazy like -25c or less and they worked just fine.
Anyway, using 3rd party EV charging often has broken charging anyway, not great right now anywhere in the world.
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My comment was in part tongue-in-cheek, but it was in response to the thread title: "Brand new Electrify America stations don't work in the cold." I wasn't condemning all charging stations. That said, electricity and extreme cold don't mix well. Extreme cold will affect all EV's to some degree. Personally, I would prefer to be stranded in a blizzard in an ICE vs an EV.
You jumped on board the EV bad train without thinking anything through.
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Extreme temps always pushes the engineered design envelope.
I'm confident they will get it figured out, hopefully!
I'm confident they will get it figured out, hopefully!
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My comment was in part tongue-in-cheek, but it was in response to the thread title: "Brand new Electrify America stations don't work in the cold." I wasn't condemning all charging stations. That said, electricity and extreme cold don't mix well. Extreme cold will affect all EV's to some degree. Personally, I would prefer to be stranded in a blizzard in an ICE vs an EV.
As to the extreme cold, you will get less range but with new cars and heat pumps, it is not that crazy. It is just not as perfect as those silly range test done over straight roads, perfect weather show.
When it comes to blizzard, actually for warming the cabin or cooling it during extreme heat, your full tank of gas will last as long as full battery (something like full day or so), problem is that with gas car, you might get co2 back into the car like that poor lady the other day that was all over the news.
but sure, you dont want to go to camping trips with EV, that is just waiting for trouble to happen.