Being a Silicon Valley carmaker, Tesla is subjected to a variety of stereotypes that critics are likely to carry up. One among these is the concept that Tesla’s autos are optimized for California climate solely, in order that they should be ill-equipped to deal with excessive climate, comparable to harsh winters. Such an thought is inaccurate.
This was highlighted by Tesla in a lately shared video on YouTube. The video is simply about three and a half minutes lengthy, but it surely supplied a reasonably good glimpse on the firm’s efforts to ensure its automobiles might function nicely within the chilly. Common winter exams are nice, after all, however as per the EV maker in its latest video, it additionally does excessive chilly climate testing.
When Tesla does one thing, the corporate tends to go all out. This appears to be the case with its excessive chilly climate exams as nicely, as workers featured within the lately shared video famous that Tesla is testing its automobiles simply a few kilometers beneath the Arctic Circle.
That’s just about as chilly as one might get, so testing autos just like the Mannequin Y within the space supplies the corporate with helpful insights concerning the all-electric crossover’s capabilities and efficiency in excessive chilly climate.
The Tesla workers featured within the video famous that autos utilized in excessive chilly testing classes are put by means of situations that prospects would seemingly encounter as they use their automobiles. Loads of work is put into guaranteeing that Teslas are capable of function in any climate — together with excessive chilly — in order that they can be utilized reliably wherever, even within the Arctic Circle.
Tesla’s winter exams have been catching headlines as of late for the reason that electrical automobile maker introduced over its upcoming pickup truck, the Cybertruck, to the Southern Hemisphere Proving Grounds (SHPG) in New Zealand. Movies and pictures of the Cybertruck on the website urged that Tesla’s upcoming pickup truck, similar to its fellow stablemates, could be fairly succesful in extraordinarily chilly climate.
Watch Tesla’s characteristic on its excessive chilly climate testing within the video beneath.
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