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Tesla's Having Issues Charging In the Cold
cartechboy writes "It's winter, and apparently meteorologists have just discovered the term Polar Vortex, as that seems to be the only thing they can talk about these days. But seriously, it's cold, and apparently the darling child of the automotive industry, the new Tesla Model S electric car, is having issues charging in the cold weather. It's being reported that the charging cables that come with the car are unable to provide a charge when the temperature dips below zero. As you can imagine, this is an issue in a country like Norway where the Model S is one of the most popular cars. In fact, it seems this issue has already left one Model S owner stranded with a dead battery nearly 100 miles from the nearest charging station. Other owners are reporting issues charging. Tesla's European sales chief Peter Bardenfleth-Hansen apologized for he inconvenience owners are facing, and said it's 'trying hard to resolve' the issue. Apparently the issues are simply down to the differences in the Norwegian network as Norway uses a slightly different charging adapter than other countries in Europe."
People disincentivized into buying electric cars, increasing CO2 emissions, raising planetary temperatures until electric cars work.
Then we'll have to go out on Tauntauns
Well, as the joke goes here in Sweden:
Why are there no mental asylums in Norway?
It'd cost too much to put walls and a roof over the whole country....
Centigrade? Farenheit?
Sometimes it doesn't matter. From Futurama:
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Did anyone seriously think the cold wouldn't be an issue? People need to get out of California and see what the rest of the world is like.
Merely pointing out that a world exists outside California is enough to blow a fair amount of minds, I'm afraid.
Even worse, you can extrapolate that to include, "outside 'Murica" for a large portion of the populace.
An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
good old gas and diesel cars always work when it's below freezing.
Thing is, a number of people have indicated that they have used third-party cables and those have solved the issue.
So it's obviously that the skin-effect electrons are out of phase with the ones in the middle, or that the wire is in the cable backward because, as everybody knows, the electrons flow through wire more easily in the same direction in which the wire was extruded. And that, of course, is why Monster brand charging cables would solve the problems ;-)
0F is "well below the freezing point".
...of what?
3M is headquartered in Minnesota, so it's clear the 3rd one just froze off from the cold.
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
It's for the same reason that the interwebs are slow in the winter. The pipes get frozen. That's why everyone wants a fat pipe, so there will be some unfrozen space in the center where the bits can flow easily.