You can add plug-in electric vehicles to the list of items that last week’s low temperatures left in the cold.
Amid hype that these expensive, battery-operated cars are the vanguard of a fossil fuel-free age, their cold-weather shortcomings reinforce their image as a subsidized toy for wealthy suburbanites.
As temperatures and wind chills plummeted to the -20s and -30s across the Midwest, Tesla owners began tweeting that the car’s travel range sharply decreased and that its interior would not warm up. Some owners weren’t even able to open the car door because the electric entry mechanism froze up.
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