HAHA! Like our love affair with oil doesn't do exactly the same thing.
Well, it is a Fox station after all.
It's probably about the same as all the energy used an carbon produced making those batteries an charging them on chargers running on coal fired plants. Giant earth moving machines raping the earth for the rare metals, the fuel used to ship the raw materials, the energy used to process them, then the energy used to make the batteries.
I didn't say I like EV'S, although they work for urban environments, for my money Hydrogen powered is the way to go, unending supply and 100% recoverable. Use pocket sized Nuclear (think Nuc Sub size) plants to convert water, compress and use the hydrogen for powering all manner of equipment . Run it thru a catalyst to provide electricity to power the rest. The O2 has many uses as well.
Just bad design.The EV apologists have arrived.
It's actually not like everyone with a Ranger sitting at a gas station with no gas. Why? Because gas stations still work in the cold.
A better analogy would be like all Ranger owners sitting at a limited number of gas stations, that only Rangers can use, that don't have any fuel BECAUSE it's too cold out.
Haven't seen that happen yet, keep your double AA powered car I'll stick with gasoline.
The part the story is glossing over is the charge protection for the battery. If you charge a cold battery you can damage it. Most smart devices down to your phone know this and won't charge a cold battery so if your Tesla has been sitting outside all night and it's low on juice to begin with and you were planning on juicing up before work when it's -30F with the wind chill...
Hence one of the comments about battery conditioning. Unlike an ICE vehicle you can't dump some juice in once it's dead, either. You have to either tow it to a charging station or have somebody tow a generator to your location to charge it.
Wave of the future ?? powered by unicorn ? ? farts and good thoughts instead of the dirty coal fired electrical power plant miles away you can't see while you're too busy virtue signaling to the rest of the world ?
Maybe I'll use that map for some laughs tomorrow and drive by some of those charging stations and laugh at the battery powered nerds from my warm and dirty ICE powered Ranger ?
You've been watching too much YOUTUBE. You can ALWAYS charge your battery.
Perhaps you did not notice that I said you loose the "Supercharging" through the "Tesla" network if Tesla makes a simple change in the programming. That doesn't mean you can't charge the battery. You can still charge it at the Tesla Network, but you will be taking a lot longer to get it done. Toy understanding the feature is only disabled through that particular network.
End of the day all that matters is that you like it, because none of us have to (or want to ?) drive it.
I hate ‘em.
This is horrible design. You have to collect hay for all summer and oats in autumn just to keep this design running. And if you get unlucky with weather you even have to pile the hay to haystack in order to get it somewhat dry and survive over winter.
