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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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To: Yossarian

Play stupid games win stupid prizes.


21 posted on 02/03/2019 12:22:47 PM PST by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: blueunicorn6
One of the Battle of the Bulge documentaries has a guy recounting having to pee on his M2 Browning to get it working one frigid morning.

Reminds me of when the LED bulbs for traffic lights came out. They didn't generate enough heat to keep the light free of snow and ice, so they had to add a heating element of some sort.

22 posted on 02/03/2019 12:23:50 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: BobL

I got the impression from the article that the Tesla door handle design was particularly ill-suited for ice/snow.


23 posted on 02/03/2019 12:23:55 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Yossarian
Ah, the polar vortex that hit the upper Midwest was so cold that even conventional cars with block heaters would have trouble starting. That's how cold it was.
24 posted on 02/03/2019 12:24:00 PM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: Yossarian

Get a horse!


25 posted on 02/03/2019 12:25:52 PM PST by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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To: Yossarian

1890’s technology and they’re still using today ,LOL


26 posted on 02/03/2019 12:26:37 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: Yossarian

Extreme cold wreaks havoc on just about
everything. Door handles on conventional
vehicles freeze up. Water in fuel lines,
increased viscosity in engine oils,
weak or inadequate anti-freeze in engine
blocks, wipers freeze to windshields.
Cold is cold. Preventative maintenance
goes a long way in helping to alleviate
cold weather problems. Electric vehicles
have come a long way, but have a long
way to go before this gear head would
consider buying one. I would never buy
one under the pretense of doing my part
to save the planet.


27 posted on 02/03/2019 12:26:55 PM PST by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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To: Yossarian

‘Mini Ice Age’ Looms As NASA Scientist Warns Lack Of Sunspots Could Bring Record Cold.Our sun was not expected to head into a solar minimum until around 2020, but it appears to be heading in that direction a little early which could prove to be bad news for warm weather lovers.

Could last 11 years. Likely will.

I don’t see a good projection ahead for the Tesla cars if they don’t figure out something.


28 posted on 02/03/2019 12:28:03 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: blueunicorn6
Maybe if they stood on a box.


29 posted on 02/03/2019 12:28:31 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: Yossarian

Boo-freak’n-hoo!


30 posted on 02/03/2019 12:29:38 PM PST by semaj (We are the People)
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To: DuncanWaring

“I got the impression from the article that the Tesla door handle design was particularly ill-suited for ice/snow.”

Jeeze - they’re in FREMONT4, California, not exactly Detroit - why should they care about winters in the rest of the country, particularly states that voted for Trump?


31 posted on 02/03/2019 12:29:48 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

wake up and smell the coffee....electric vehicles are a hoax...always have been


32 posted on 02/03/2019 12:31:02 PM PST by Dont tread and Live (waso)
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To: Yossarian

Tesla Model S owners around where I live don’t drive them in cold weather, as they have two or three other vehicles better-suited to cold. I’m guessing many Model 3 owners are sacrificing to afford their $50k price tags and don’t have other vehicles as backup.


33 posted on 02/03/2019 12:31:23 PM PST by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: RayChuang88

The old Hudson Hornets, when temps got that cold they’d recommend adding a pint of kerosene to the crankcase to thin out the oil. Of course you had to remember to change the oil to a thicker viscosity as soon as the weather got warmer. These were the days before multi viscosity oils.


34 posted on 02/03/2019 12:31:51 PM PST by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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To: Yossarian
Ettore Bugatti received a complaint from a customer about how hard his car was to start in cold weather.

"If you can afford one of my cars, you can afford a heated garage."

35 posted on 02/03/2019 12:32:31 PM PST by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: Yossarian
An automobile operates in a very tough environment. 120F down to -20F. A tough environment for electronics. Most modern cars have tons of electronics. Electric cars probably have a lot more.

You can't beat the simple internal combustion engine for reliability at extreme temperatures. All that is needed is a spark and gasoline. Of course, there is the issue of water freezing. So an air-cooled engine is probably more reliable. The viscosity of oil is an issue.

36 posted on 02/03/2019 12:32:34 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: Ouderkirk

The battery is the problem with all of them. Musk however, has a severe quality problem too.


37 posted on 02/03/2019 12:34:08 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is what I read in the papers.)
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To: Yossarian

Get a team of horses to pull it around.

And the Libtards want to do away with petroleum!


38 posted on 02/03/2019 12:38:16 PM PST by Vlad The Inhaler (A.D. 636 Jerusalem Falls To Islam, A.D. 642 Christian Egypt Is Lost To Islam)
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To: reg45

Batteries have trouble everywhere though. Heat, and vibration, is what kills batteries, at least lead-acid flooded automotive start batteries.

They just don’t fall over till December or January. You can bet the midwest has a pretty good shortage of car battery inventory about now. The -30° F overnight temperatures separates the wheat from the chaff. Any marginal car battery nearing end of service life ... ended service. Batteries take longer to charge back up in cold temperatures too.

The expectations some folks have for an electric car I’m sure is way out of proportion as well, because they don’t understand how things work, they don’t want to know how things work actually.


39 posted on 02/03/2019 12:38:20 PM PST by Freedom4US
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To: blueunicorn6

That reminds me of an old joke. Bill and Hillary strolling along a path with snow all around, came to where someone had peed in the snow and written, Bill’s an a**hole.” Bill was irate. Had the urine analyzed. It was Vince Foster’ urine, but Hillary’s handwriting!


40 posted on 02/03/2019 12:38:34 PM PST by Tucker39 ("It ishttps://y impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
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