Category: Cold Weather

Batteries Cold Weather Model 3 Polar Vortex Tesla

Teslas, other EVs struggle in the polar vortex

sudshr47 January 30, 2019

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Electric vehicle owners are discovering the harsh reality of driving a battery-powered vehicle in below-freezing temperatures like those sweeping across the Midwest.

Most drivers know in theory that cold weather adversely affects the car’s and its battery’s abilities, but it’s another thing to see your range plummet on the dashboard next to the frigid outside and interior temperature. In these type of conditions the vehicles have a hard time warming up. Even charging is slowed down. So on Wednesday, EV drivers were dealing with way less range than they were used to — and some Tesla owners couldn’t even get into their frozen cars. Read more…

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Bomb Cyclone Climate Cold Weather Science Stupid Cold

Eastern U.S. shivers through ‘stupid cold’ temperatures after the ‘bomb cyclone’

sudshr47 January 6, 2018

Mashable’s Andrew Freedman warned all of you last week: “Stupid-level cold” incoming.
In the aftermath of the “bomb cyclone” that slammed the eastern United States on Wednesday and Thursday, a bitter cold has descended. It’s thanks to all the frigid …

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Cold Weather Culture Freezing Tweets Watercooler

Well the weather in Chicago is frightful, but these sad tweets are so delightful

sudshr47 December 29, 2017

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If you’re currently residing in an area where temperatures are below zero, you are not alone. 

As a deep freeze settles in across America, there are so many people who are currently colder than you — and that alone should give you solace.

All across the country except in beautiful sunny, better Los Angeles (sorry New York), temperatures are dropping into the teens and below. In times like this, all the internet has is each other.

Thursday morning, temperatures dropped below 32 degrees Fahrenheit in Watertown, New YorkIn the mountains in New Hampshire, temperatures have dropped to minus-34 degrees. Chicago has been nicknamed Chiberia (which is frankly disrespectful to Siberia, where one city is currently minus-45 degreesPlease read my article). Read more…

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