I disagree about them being “not suitable”, there are plenty of people who don’t have problems with them.
Electric cars are still in their early stages, where it’s not common knowledge how they work and what one needs to do to prevent the worst issues.
I’d bet there’s plenty of instances where similar issues happened with gas cars in their infancy. People didn’t change the oil, or didn’t maintain properly and the car was essentially junk because of it.
I think that most of the people who got stuck at the charging stations was because they didn’t actually turn off the car, they ran it dead with the cabin heat, then left it with sentry mode and cabin temp protection on. Along with the fact that they didn’t know or didn’t have a level 2 station to go to instead of insisting on level 3.
Is this a problem? Of course it is, but it’s not a problem for other manufacturers who have safeties in their software, or people who own Tesla’s who understand how the Tesla operates.
Do we need more charging stations? Yes, though we also need people either be taught, or learn, more about their vehicle and it’s operation. This goes for any vehicle, not just EV.
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I disagree about them being “not suitable”, there are plenty of people who don’t have problems with them.
Electric cars are still in their early stages, where it’s not common knowledge how they work and what one needs to do to prevent the worst issues.
I’d bet there’s plenty of instances where similar issues happened with gas cars in their infancy. People didn’t change the oil, or didn’t maintain properly and the car was essentially junk because of it.
I think that most of the people who got stuck at the charging stations was because they didn’t actually turn off the car, they ran it dead with the cabin heat, then left it with sentry mode and cabin temp protection on. Along with the fact that they didn’t know or didn’t have a level 2 station to go to instead of insisting on level 3.
Is this a problem? Of course it is, but it’s not a problem for other manufacturers who have safeties in their software, or people who own Tesla’s who understand how the Tesla operates.
Do we need more charging stations? Yes, though we also need people either be taught, or learn, more about their vehicle and it’s operation. This goes for any vehicle, not just EV.