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"Nothing. No juice. Still on zero percent," said Tyler Beard, who has been trying to recharge his Tesla at an Oak Brook Tesla supercharging station since Sunday afternoon. "And this is like three hours being out here after being out here three hours yesterday."

"Like any new technology, there’s a learning curve for people," said Mark Bilek of the Chicago Auto Trade Association.

Lmao, no my dudes, it's pretty well understood that you need to keep the battery warm enough to be able to charge. This is not some fucking unexplored field of science!

I'm absolutely cackling at the radio silence from Tesla + dozens of Tesla owners just sitting around cluelessly wondering why their car hasn't charged at all in over 3 hours. Maybe another 3 hours will do it, keep trying stalin-approval

Also, a cursory Google search leads me to believe that the Model 3 has no dedicated battery warmer that could be used for this very situation, but instead some system that "runs the motor inefficiently to heat up the battery". Doesn't sound like this can work when the car is stationary, I guess tesla engineers forgot about the Midwest when cutting parts to save on production costs michael-laugh

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[-] Yllych@hexbear.net 58 points 11 months ago

Another thing I hate Tesla for is the fact that their shitty cars poison the well for basically any kind of electrified transport, by way of their greenwashing these bazingamobiles.

Trying to sell the public on electric transport that's actually scaled properly to work, like buses and trains is hard enough without connections to tesla

[-] bam13302@ttrpg.network 18 points 11 months ago

First you would need to sell Americans on public transportation in general, which is a far bigger issue

[-] Skeleton_Erisma@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago

To which I say good luck.

Burgers are very selective with their narrative. Like, they don't believe covid is real, but they'll enthusiastically use it or other viruses as an excuse to shoot down public transit

honestly nobody knows or cares how public transport works. every once in a while car guys blow their minds by learning that normal city buses have turbos

[-] wopazoo@hexbear.net 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Trying to sell the public on electric transport that's actually scaled properly to work, like buses and trains is hard enough without connections to tesla

right-wing media is already running articles on how electric buses are fiery death traps ready to burst into flames at any moment.

what they ignore is that diesel bus fires happen all the time (mostly when going wide-open throttle up a steep hill, like electric bus fires), but they never get reported on by the news

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