Forgot your password?  Comment: Re:Blaming the cables? (Score 1)
476  by ari_j (#46096527) Attached to: Tesla's Having Issues
Charging In the Cold  My experience with solid-state batteries
differs significantly from yours. Maybe it's just colder here in
North Dakota. :)  Also, the Prius's heater uses engine coolant.
It apparently has an auxiliary electric heat source and water
pump to keep the cabin heated when the gasoline engine is shut
off, but if they put the car together in a remotely sane manner
that should result in redundancy rather than an additional point
of failure. If the batteries or the gas engine fails you in the
Prius, you still should not freeze to death.  In a Tesla,
though, if the batteries fail you then you will freeze to death.
While the same is true for the fuel line and pump on a gasoline
car or, much greater risk because of fuel gelling, on a diesel
car, I have not personally witnessed a properly maintained
gasoline car that started and reached operating temperature fail
because of fue