I suspect a lot of people just don't understand all of this. When I had my first Tesla, I remember talking to many people at superchargers, and this was in 2015 when most Tesla owners were still early adopters and were tech savvy, but still the lack of understanding was rampant.
The EV manufacturers seem to want to hide all this from customers so they don't "look bad". On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 9:06 AM John Lussmyer via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > So, in general, this means there are a lot of rideshare drivers using > Teslas - who can't think ahead far enough to charge up at the END of the > work day - while the pack is still warm, rather than waiting for the > next days, when the pack is frozen. > > On 1/18/2024 8:50 AM, (-Phil-) via EV wrote: > > Tesla preconditioning is almost always HEATING the battery, and this is a > > GOOD thing! > > > > Apparently what happened in Chicago is there is a large quantity of EV > > owners that do not have home charging. Supposedly a high proportion are > > rideshare operators (Lyft/Uber) that lease EVs to use for work. This > means > > they operate 100% on public charging. If you park an EV outside below > > > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/ > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20240118/c96dfd98/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
