Keith Tanner said:
Of course, a cold night will also decrease range for a gas car as it works to get up to temp. My wife used to do this all the time with her Grand Cherokee - park it with 10 miles range showing and on startup it would drop 5-6 miles immediately.A more normal use case would have been for the Tesla to have been plugged in overnight so it would have been fully charged and preheated in the morning. I know, there are a bunch of reasons why this didn't happen and you got in this situation, but the mode of propulsion is basically irrelevant to the story as this exact thing could have happened with an ICE.
Not a totally fair comment, I've never seen a gas car drop that much over night, not even close. Also every other EV I've driven have at least had a cable I can plug into a standard 30 amp 110V outlet. That may not help much overnight, but it would have at least added enough for this not to be an issue. The bag with the cable and adaptors that was in the trunk didn't have an adaptor to let me do that so I'm happy calling them out for it.
I am not by any means anti EV, I think there's a huge amount to like about them and honestly believe that we are at the point that 90 plus % of the travel done by 90 plus % of users out there could now be done with EV's. At this point It's buy in cost, infrastructure and hold out customer resistances that's stopping EV's from almost instantly making ICE cars obsolete for the general public.
