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Originally Posted by Car-Addicted
So as I understand it if you plug in most EV's in cold or hot weather it will begin to condition the battery compartment. This is not dependent on having a charge in the battery as the charger is the power source? When the battery is in the operational range the battery will start charging?
Since this happened all over Chicago maybe there is another source of the problem?
Start looking up managed electric vehicle charging
Why Managed Charging?
EV electricity demand without managed charging is unpredictable because customers charge their vehicles at their convenience. As shown below, EV aggregate demand may fluctuate significantly, requiring investments in additional energy generation and transmission and/or distribution system upgrades.
https://sepapower.org/knowledge/ev-m...rogram-design/
It is very possible that the super chargers were throttled due to the cold snap and this was not a Tesla super charger issue at all but an electric utility issue?
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They interviewed some EV technical guy and he said in such cold weather it is a must that you “precondition” the battery so it will accept a charge. Also, though, in addition to a lot of cars apparently not accepting a charge, as has been discussed here, a lot of the chargers themselves were not functioning at all.