Then what?
So most governments have set a time line when the end of the internal combustion engine Must occur, (Moderator comment: Political comments removed) . So then what? Does anyone honestly think there ...
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Reisender wrote:
If the battery is cold (parked over night or whatever) charging starts out VERY SLOW. We have never been in that situation but have seen some test videos on it. It can double or triple charge time. Generally at the end of the travel day we charge before parking so we don’t have to charge first thing on a cold morning at a supercharger . By the time we have to charge the car and the battery is always warm so charging is normal. Its one of those read the manual and best practices things.
The need for slow charge when cold is not new to EVs. Even starter batteries will not take as much, or put out as much when cold. And if you try to force it, bad things can happen. Twice I have been around where it started raining acid after a bang.
Back in the late '60s, GM trained us to remove caps, look in battery, before hooking up jumper cables. If the battery was discharged enough, and it was cold enough to see ice in the cells don't even try to charge until thaws because of the high probability of explosion.
Good the car/battery knows.
