What a piece of crap!

I thought this was leapardsatemyface for a moment

Hate to spoil the anti cybertruck band wagon here, but apparently the owner discovered that they were doing something wrong. I think they seated the charger incorrectly, which allowed it to charge for a bit, but then the safety mechanism from the truck turns off the charging. These trucks and other electric vehicles can charge at this temperature range, but they will have reduced range.
Elon is still a Nazi, and these trucks look horrendous.
Edit: Facebook link
- I'm a little confused what a "NEUTRAL ground" is supposed to be. It seems self-contradictory.
  
  i mean standard outlets have live neutral and ground, neutral and ground are ultimately both connected to the true ground in the earth, but neutral is the ground the current optimally flows through, whereas ground is just used for safety to prevent metal casings of devices from silently being connected to live or whatever. dont know how much of that applies to ev chargers but probably not too far off.
  
  Do not question the spicy pixies that live in the walls, the will kill you.
- I still think the connector on a 24 amp line shouldn't be something you need to take apart as a consumer.
  
  I don't think that's what this is saying. It seems to be saying it just wasn't plugged in all the way.
  
  Ooo I didn't understand that before, I thought it was not plugged in right. If I'm understanding you correctly, his fix could have been very dangerous
  
  Eh, if you're careful and know what you're doing (e.g. Google stuff), it's effectively screws and copper. Nothing too special about it.
- Thank you for actually doing some research and getting the facts.
- Also many of these chargers are installed on off-peak meters so that you can get a few cents per kwh off. In the winter in cold areas like Minnesota peak shaving happens in the middle of the night because many homes are on electric heat.
  So if it is cold enough for the electric company to be peak shaving, you may lose several hours of charging through the night
  
  Could you ELI5 this?

I'm gonna take a slightly different approach on this one.
If you live in an area which gets to sub zero temperatures and didn't consider the impact that has on batteries before buying electric, this one's on you.
- And only 50a
- This has been my issue with all EVs...it can easily get to -30c here. Batteries are just dumb

The Tesla Cybertruck is not the only EV that struggles to charge in very cold weather, but it is the ugliest and most facist EV around.
- What's a facist? Some sort of face bigot?
  
  Yeah, fascists love phrenology

$100k btw

My only advice to this person is to not buy cars from Nazis.

It's hard to empathize with somebody who has eyes, yet still bought one.
- Or with brains but doesn't use 'em.

- Or..
- this would be hilarious on an ev even as just a bit.

When it is below freezing, you have to hardwire your mains power straight to the cybertruck's battery. Everybody knows this.
- I heard pouring petrol down the back of it and setting it alight makes it warmer, thus allowing the battery to hold the charge more effectively
- That's essentially what any level 2 charger is. Just with some rectification in the middle.
  
  Level 2 chargers only supply 240v AC.
  They have a lot of protection circuitry to make handling them in wet / rain safe but everything else is up to the EV to handle.

Set the swasticar on fire, at least you'll be warm for a bit

Christ even my golf cart has a self heating battery that can trickle charge on 110v in freezing temperatures.

It is an incredibly inefficient EV and they compensated for it by putting a huge battery in it. It will not charge quickly.
- You can't waste energy driving if the battery doesn't charge. Checkmate climate change.

I want to laugh in this guy’s face in person, but Minnesota is kind of far away. Can we set up a videoconference? That would be the next best thing.
- People who live in Minnesota should be smart enough not to buy electric cars.
  
  I've had an EV for six years. No issues and no regrets until Elon came out as Nazi.
  
  Let me bite: Why should they not buy one?

I bet they did Nazi this happening to them

Why would someone put a dumpster right next to their front door?
- Obviously they collect a lot of trash.

You get what you paid for.
- IDK, they do pay a lot
  
  90% of that is idiot tax

Well-deserved Tesla hate aside, what's the remedy to this for an electric car? Heated blanket over the battery? Or do less shitty EVs have something built in? I'm just curious.
- Heated blanket over the battery?
  This is not uncommon for ICE vehicles as well. Small electric heater on the engine block to help keep things above 0 and speed up the process of starting the car and getting up to temp
- Good manufacturers will install a heater on the battery that will keep it warm while charging. Also it sounds like the cybercuck is using over 20 amps for something else if they have a dedicated 50amp charger. So either the battery heater is using more energy than they can provide or the thing is broken.
  My money is on being broken.
  
  The guy posted a follow up comment. The charging connector was broken.
- Self heating batteries. Basically a small heater to get the battery into a more suitable temperature range. Super simple solution and since batteries produce heat while charging anyway, you just need a bit of heat to kickstart charging.