Chicago-area Tesla charging stations lined with dead cars in freezing cold

My sister lives in Chicago and her ICE car also won't start due to the extreme low temperatures. The Canadians solved this problem by having resistive heat elements installed in their engine, I think EVs probably need the same.

Its been -10F in the upper midwest the last few days. Lots BEV and ICE vehicles are dead. Its not just an EV issue.

A friend hypothesized that a lot of Tesla drivers charge the same way they refilled their gas cars, by waiting until the last minute and supercharging back up to "full". This doesn't work when it's so cold so people need to learn to charge a little at a time.

My &quot;favorite&quot; thing about these stories is all the anti-EV&#x27;rs coming out and going &quot;hahaha, stupid EV drivers&quot;. Except they don&#x27;t realize their ICE car is part of the problem. These extremely unusual storms and cold snaps are part of climate change and their pointing and laughing is only going to make things worse.<p>At the end of the day, the real story is that EV&#x27;s are having teething problems in unusual cold conditions. It&#x27;s still relatively new technology (on the scale of cars in general), and we need to learn how to handle these different scenarios properly. My grandparents in Northern Minnesota had an engine block heater that they&#x27;d leave plugged in anytime their ICE car (decades ago) was home. Why? Because it&#x27;d get so cold you couldn&#x27;t start the car. But this wasn&#x27;t laughed about on the news because it wasn&#x27;t new. We as a society had learned how to deal with it and it wasn&#x27;t a big deal. EV&#x27;s will get there one day.

Illinois area gas stations are also lined with ICE vehicles unable to fill gas because gas pumps are frozen.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wcia.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;local-news&#x2F;cold-weather-causes-frozen-gas-pumps&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wcia.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;local-news&#x2F;cold-weather-causes-fro...</a><p>I wonder why the Fox Business article does not mention that?

This is where a hybrid powertrain &#x2F; PHEV is superior to EV. In an ideal system you want redundancies, especially redundancies that cover for each other&#x27;s weaknesses.

It&#x27;s a charger issue, did any one read the damn article?

I&#x27;m surprised since I&#x27;ve never had any problems at -40C and it happened several times. I Neve had to supercharge the car under these conditions however.

For cold climates, ev&#x27;s have a built block heater, and it takes power.<p>The problem is refueling, a sitting ev needs to power its own heater running down the battery, and to make it worse, batteries already have lower power in winter.<p>Thus the cars are all waiting to refuel and ran out of power.<p>A Hybrid is a better option until refueling EV&#x27;s are not an issue.

ICE cars are superior in this scenario. You can jump start the battery and your car good to go unless your fuel tank also freeze up. EVs you can&#x27;t do that. There are portable batteries to jump start ICE cars. I have not seen similar devices for EVs.

&quot;Like any new technology, there’s a learning curve for people,&quot; said Mark Bilek of the Chicago Auto Trade Association.<p>Yup. Learn not to trust EVs.