It is negative degrees out here in Chicago.

My car needed charging.

So, of course, you look for the closest charger station, which for me was evergreen. I made it to evergreen. And what happened? And of the 10 stations, I want to say 9 or 8 of them, are all broken and unable to be utilized.

So of course, as you can see you have multiple vehicles.

Now it's a lot of Tesla's guide

and are unable to be charged.

You have people who are stuck out in negative degree weather.

Yeah, covered in frost.

You have a tow truck here who is trying to help support.

But again, all of these charging stations no longer work.

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Tesla's not doing so good in the in this hold on what because I think a lot of people in this cold snap that we had recently in the Midwest are

realizing to your point that EVs don't like extreme cold double the time to charge them

way worse range. I think the guys over at TFL had a model 3 or model

Y that's over 300 miles and they got 157 in the cold. Ouch.

But I, if we're going to play that, we also have to play this post by a luma duty,

at a luma duty, of a 2024 F-450 cold start in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

This was negative 31 degrees Fahrenheit.

I think it's only fair to show both sides of the equation.

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