Electric car owners learned the tough way during the recent polar vortex that their batteries cannot hang onto a charge when temperatures dip that low. Tesla owners,in particular, discovered that they cannot open their doors very well after a winter storm either.
Tesla’s Model 3 owners are filling social media and online forums with complaints about their vehicles not performing well during the extreme cold the polar vortex brought with it. While cold temperatures will more quickly drain a battery in general, and Tesla vehicles aren’t doing well.“My biggest concern is the cold weather drained my battery 20 to 25 miles overnight and an additional five to ten miles on my drive to work. I paid $60000 to not drain my battery so quickly,” current Jersey resident Ronak Patel told Bloomberg.
Patel owns a Model 3 and wasn’t happy with its performance. Salim Morsy explained that it’s Panasonic’s batteries manufactured for Tesla and not Tesla, said the Bloomberg current energy finance analyst.
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Source: inquisitr.com