{"id":83487,"date":"2025-09-03T11:23:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T15:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=83487"},"modified":"2025-09-03T11:23:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T15:23:14","slug":"new-jersey-tesla-charging-slowly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=83487","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey Driver Notices Tesla Model Y Charging Slowly. Should He Have Preconditioned?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many people considering electric vehicles worry that charging will be a hassle.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They imagine long drives spent hunting for a charger or waiting hours to refill a battery. But reality may surprise them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

<\/svg><\/span>Is Charging An Electric Car Inconvenient?<\/h2>\n

In a trending video, Tesla Model Y owner Nate Nieri (@nate.nieri<\/a>) cleared up a misconception some people have about the realities of driving an electric vehicle long distances.<\/p>\n

Nieri explained that he was headed to the Jersey Shore when the urge to pee hit him, so he made a pit stop at a rest area that had something he wasn\u2019t expecting.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was like, oh, look. There\u2019s some chargers, so we plugged in,\u201d Nieri said.<\/p>\n

When they plugged in, the car\u2019s battery was at 53%. \u201cSo I just went in, peed, came back out after getting a snack.\u201d<\/p>\n

When he checked the dash, he was at 68%, 13% more juice in what couldn\u2019t have been more than 10 or so minutes. Despite the meaningful boost, Nieri said that charge was actually \u201cpretty slow\u201d because he hadn\u2019t preconditioned the battery.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat conditioning the battery does is it warms it up to the perfect temperature to receive electricity. So that did not happen because I didn\u2019t intentionally travel to this charger,\u201d Nieri noted.<\/p>\n

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The quick top-up was enough to continue the trip, Nieri said, especially since he wasn\u2019t even expecting to get a charge in.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis did not add any time to my travel. I\u2019m gonna stop here anyway. I\u2019m just plugging in. I\u2019m doing my normal things,\u201d Nieri said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Charging an EV is often assumed to be inconvenient or time-consuming compared to filling up at a gas station, but Nieri stressed that wasn\u2019t the case.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m gonna make my way over to the shore, get some of my appointments done, then plug in probably for another 10, 15 minutes, and then I should have enough juice to get me home,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

To those who think an electric vehicle is inconvenient to charge, \u201cIt\u2019s not,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re not constantly waiting hours to charge to 100%.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/svg><\/span>What Is Preconditioning And How Does It Work?<\/h2>\n

Preconditioning warms or cools the car\u2019s battery before a trip, using electricity from the wall while the car is plugged in. This means the battery starts at the right temperature for charging, which helps it accept power more efficiently, Motoring Electric<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n

A cold battery can reduce how fast it charges and cut driving range by up to 30%, especially in winter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Preconditioning prevents this loss, preserves the battery\u2019s potential range, and can help maintain battery health over time. Some EVs even adjust battery temperature on the move or before planned charging stops to make charging faster and more efficient.<\/p>\n

<\/svg><\/span>Commenters React<\/h2>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll just keep driving and never have to plan my day around where I\u2019ll charge,\u201d a top comment read.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy prius prime is best case scenario. 45 miles of electric range 450 miles of gas range,\u201d said another.<\/p>\n

\u201cnow drive 525 miles without stopping again,…oh you can’t? I can and it takes 6 minutes to fill back up and do it again,…oh, and I don’t have to \u2018condition\u2019 anything to do that,\u201d another wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSeriously? My Mach-e does not need to be pre-conditioned to charge. I charge 30 minutes from 10-80% in 30 minutes w\/o any conditioning,\u201d another commenter chimed in.<\/p>\n

InsideEVs reached out to Nieri for comment via TikTok direct message and comment.<\/p>\n

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Many people considering electric vehicles worry that charging will be a hassle.\u00a0 They imagine long drives spent hunting for a charger or waiting hours to refill a battery. But reality may surprise them.\u00a0 Is Charging An Electric Car Inconvenient? In a trending video, Tesla Model Y owner Nate Nieri (@nate.nieri) cleared up a misconception some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83488,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/83488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}