We know that driving in winter it’s pretty troublesome, and Domenick Nati, a 44-year-old US citizen, found it out for himself when his Tesla S ruined his Christmas, as it battery not charged due to cold in the middle of Christmas Eve, he expressed through social networks.
Thus, Elon Musk, the media entrepreneur of the year, ends 2022 with more problems that he must correct, after this incident where one of his electric Tesla It did not charge its owner’s battery. In this regard, the owner of the Tesla S shared in a TikTok video that he was stranded on Christmas Eve because his car did not take the cold.
Tesla did not charge due to cold
As reported by Domenick, who is a radio announcer, a resident of Lynchburg, in his video, the thermometer read -7 degrees Celsius, when he connected his vehicle to a supercharger, but the disappointment came 15 hours later, when he realized that the battery still marked a minimum performance, a range of just 30 km. A fact that forced him to cancel your Christmas planss.
“Two hours passed and not much changed,” he told the Insider portal. And he added that: “It was very slow and the numbers decreased as the temperature dropped. Eventually, it stopped charging entirely.”
Nati thought that it could be the effect of a bad distribution line, and with those 30 kilometers of performance she tried to charge the vehicle at home, but she was unsuccessful.
The afternoon of Saturday the 24th drove another Tesla supercharger. “Battery is getting hot: keep the charging cable inserted, “was read on Nati’s screen at 1:11 p.m. However, the range of the battery had not increased after an hour of charging.
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“I don’t have another vehicle, so I decided to see if I just needed more time. Hours passed and with only 30 kilometers, I decided to leave the car plugged in and return home, “he specified.
After that, he contacted Tesla customer service from which he received no response.
Since the car never charged, he decided to make a video for TikTok, since he couldn’t even book a car anymore. Uber or Lyft: “There are none working in my area,” he complained. Tesla, Musk’s company, has so far been silent on the matter.
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