Electric Car Owners Realize Their Cars Don’t Work in Cold Weather

RUSH: I love this next story, but don’t misunderstand why. I don’t revel in the suffering of others. I do not revel or have schadenfreude when other people encounter difficulties that I could have predicted. It’s not part of this. I have known because of my extensive tech background and knowledge that one of the worst things for batteries is cold weather. If you want to make a battery as inefficient as possible, you put it in the freezer for a while. By the same token, exorbitantly high temperatures can do the same thing.

But the problem there is the tendency to explode. But batteries — lithium-ion batteries, the kind of batteries that are rechargeable and in every device, including electric cars — just cease to function when it gets cold. This is something that electric car buyers are not often told. “If there’s one thing electric vehicle owners are learning, it is that extremely cold temperatures are likely going to lead to frustration if they don’t take extra special care of” the battery in their electric car.

“Disgruntled owners of [Tesla] Model 3s have been widespread on social media and online forums, talking about numerous issues they’ve had with cold weather on their vehicles. People have complained about battery range draining and Model 3 door handles freezing up.”

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