Tesla charging stations have stopped working in Chicago, United States,  due to frost.

As a result, many Tesla owners have abandoned their cars at charging stations after unsuccessful attempts to get them charged.

According to Mikhail Kulakov, a Sales Lead Manager at a leading telecommunications company, the frost in the city is about -20 degrees Celsius.

“Tesla charging stations have stopped working in Chicago due to frost. For this reason, many electric cars throughout the city remain abandoned at the charging stations,” Kulakov said on LinkedIn.

“This problem has been going on since Sunday. The frost in the city has reached -20 degrees Celsius.”

Brent Seavey, Vice President, Business Development at Xcelerate and Ex-Tesla OG, said  owners of Electric Vehicles (EVs) are not supposed to let the state of charge go below 20 percent during winter.

He explained that the  battery needs energy to keep itself warm, to pre-heat before supercharging and to operate.

According to him, when the state of charge of your  Tesla gets too low, the car can no longer supercharge because they must first heat up to accept the charge.

“When you own an EV you can’t let the SOC (state of charge) go below 20% in the winter, as the battery needs energy to keep itself warm, to pre-heat before DC Fast charging (supercharging) and to operate. When you let your Tesla get too low of an SOC, they can no longer supercharge because they must first heat up to accept the charge,” Seavey said on LinkedIn.

“There are plenty of cars in Chicagoland that use gasoline that their owners let them go too low and they won’t start, or their meager 12v batteries won’t start the car in the cold, but we’ll just send a camera crew out and interview novice EV owners who don’t have home charging and/or pushed their cars too low in the cold. I’ve been driving EVs now since 2015, and have never had an issue. Just drove in -2 to the gym, just like millions of other EV owners today.”

There are growing concerns about the future of EVs. But Henrique Saias, Technology Evangelist at Paperview.net, while acknowledging some challenges with EVs thinks EVs are not doomed.

“I guess that’s just another problem to solve. Many were solved to make it this far with both gas and electric vehicles. I love reading the comments that always anticipate the end of an Era whenever the industry faces a bump on the road,” he said.

“No, EVs aren’t doomed. These problems will be solved, like all future problems will be solved. Because, there is one problem that has no solution… combustion engines must be replaced.”

Also, Con Lokos, General Manager at Ingressum, believes new chemistry based batteries other than Lithium will revolutionize the sector.

“Horses for courses” There’s a time and place for everything- simply wanting something to desperately function as imagined doesn’t turn out that way in reality. But lets keep going new chemistry based batteries-other than Lithium-will revolutionize this sector,” Lokos said on LinkedIn.

“And dont forget the thorium molten salt reactor as a replacement for the standard U235 designs. China is leading is both areas – maybe time for the ROW to focus on the science and not conflicts!”