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Tesla Model 3 Owners Vent About Polar Vortex Affecting Cars
Bloomberg ^ | 2/2/19 | Hailey Waller, Craig Trudell and Brandon Kochkodin

Posted on 02/03/2019 12:02:55 PM PST by Yossarian

Edited on 02/03/2019 12:44:05 PM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: elonbashcannonball; polarvortex; tesla; toys; waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah; waaaaaaaaaaambulance
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If Elon Musk didn't do adequate cold-weather testing of his cherished, hyped, ego-trip project...

...then what else hasn't he adequately tested? What problems lurk under the covers in the future for Tesla owners?

1 posted on 02/03/2019 12:02:55 PM PST by Yossarian
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To: Yossarian

The best way to thaw the door handles on a Tesla is to pee on them.

Harder for a girl.

Maybe if they stood on a box.


2 posted on 02/03/2019 12:06:46 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Yossarian

Their efforts to prevent global warming by driving electric cars are starting to pay off!


3 posted on 02/03/2019 12:07:56 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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I’ve known girls who can pee and write their name in the snow.

They used a stick to write their name, but still, that’s like multitasking.


4 posted on 02/03/2019 12:08:55 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Yossarian

Here’s something I don’t have to worry about.


5 posted on 02/03/2019 12:09:30 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: Yossarian

I guess the designers actually believed their own global warming crap.


6 posted on 02/03/2019 12:09:33 PM PST by fruser1
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To: fruser1
I guess the designers actually believed their own global warming crap.

Ha!

7 posted on 02/03/2019 12:11:43 PM PST by Yossarian
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To: Yossarian

Elon Musk is not a Car Guy or Manufacturing guy. I’ve yet to see any Tesla that has body panels fit as well as a Chevy Cruz.


8 posted on 02/03/2019 12:11:44 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is what I read in the papers.)
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To: Yossarian

Electric cars are ego toys. Fine for those who want them. It’s their money, as long as the cars are not subsidized by the government. But the rest of us must live in the real world.


9 posted on 02/03/2019 12:12:18 PM PST by DakotaGator (Weep for the lost Republic! And keep your powder dry!!)
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To: Joe 6-pack

I don’t object to electric cars per se.

I object to the virtue signaling their owners/drivers project.

HEre in the snowy and cold northeast where they spread salt by the ton, I question the utility of owning such a vehicle. You get stuck in traffic because of an accident in the snow and you’re draining the battery just to keep warm. When said salt corrodes your electrical contacts and your car won’t drive, charge, or move you’ve got an expensive bill to make it road worthy again.


10 posted on 02/03/2019 12:16:21 PM PST by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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Tesla is based in southern California, where it rarely gets cold.


11 posted on 02/03/2019 12:18:24 PM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: Yossarian

Typical California design for California.


12 posted on 02/03/2019 12:18:54 PM PST by SecondAmendment (This just proves my latest theory ... LIBERALS RUIN EVERYTHING!)
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To: Yossarian

“If Elon Musk didn’t do adequate cold-weather testing of his cherished, hyped, ego-trip project...then what else hasn’t he adequately tested? What problems lurk under the covers in the future for Tesla owners?”

Oh PLEASE - what car operates PERFECTLY in cold weather. OBVIOUSLY if these people wanted a reliable car, they would not have bought a Tesla.


13 posted on 02/03/2019 12:19:23 PM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: Yossarian

Dear Ronak Patel.

Just hook up the on board wind mill solar panel array and you should be just fine.
Regards
Elon


14 posted on 02/03/2019 12:19:42 PM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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Hard to believe a left coaster could be so out of touch.


15 posted on 02/03/2019 12:19:47 PM PST by proust (Justice delayed is injustice.)
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To: reg45

Tesla is NorCal. SpaceX is SoCal.


16 posted on 02/03/2019 12:19:56 PM PST by Yossarian
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“Andrea Falcone, a software engineer in Boston, tweeted a picture of her frozen handle”

We’ve all had to deal with door handles that were less-than-thawed. The REAL QUESTION is why is this woman attacking Tesla over a problem that all cars have? Is she, perhaps, trying to cash-in?


17 posted on 02/03/2019 12:20:58 PM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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Less than two months earlier, she had purchased the Model 3 and posted a smiley emoji and a picture of herself posing with the new car.

Look, peasants, at how smart and everything I am. Clearly better than you!

18 posted on 02/03/2019 12:21:47 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: Yossarian

Teslas in Ill-Annoy have had to get a different kind of transponder for the tollways. The stock iPass does not do well on the dash/windshield, and a differnt kind is mounted in the grille.


19 posted on 02/03/2019 12:21:54 PM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: Yossarian

I think the BOTTOM LINE is that some people are simply not comfortable with ‘technology’ - and is that really Tesla’s fault?


20 posted on 02/03/2019 12:22:10 PM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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