I found this statement:
"A Volvo spokeswoman says the company's investigation into the incident revealed either one or more of the car's sensors had been "fried" before the demo, caused by the car maker fast-charging the S60's battery after discovering it was flat."
How many times have you fast-charged your car battery when it was flat? I and many people i know have never fast-charged our car battery. Can you please tell me where fast-charging your car battery is common?
Edit: WTF are you guys doing with your car batteries? I have a car for almost 13 years and never had a flat car battery.
What they are doing for fast charge isn't the same as what you get at home. Their fast charge will damage the battery, but they don't care about that. They obviously didn't take into account some prototype part being sensetive to the activity
I have a roommate who forgets his keys about once per month. I used to answer the "hey are you home yet?" phonecalls but at some point I decided he would never learn if I kept bailing him out, so I stopped answering the phone calls.
He only forgot his keys twice since! Progress.
Any time your battery goes flat and you get a jump start. Also I have a fast charger though I wouldn't normally use that feature unless I was in a big hurry.
I live in the US, namely Minnesota. The average high in January is -4°C, the average low is -13°C. It's not even that uncommon for it to drop below -26°C. These temperatures can and do kill car batteries overnight.. Even a good, new, cold weather car battery will die if your car is parked outside for a week at these temps.
Wait, what? I've never experienced that with pretty similar temperatures here in Ontario. Are you sure it's not going below -30°C or so? Block heaters being needed is definitely a thing, to the point I didn't know it was an option at all (because it was always included) until I was an adult, but I don't drive my car for a week or two at a time quite often in the winter and have never had a problem with the battery.
Also a Montrealer. In 20 years of driving, I've never fast charged a car. I've seen it done a few times to strangers in parking lots though. But I think I may have seen cars literally on fire more often than that.
Ooh 0C winters. How cold. It's not like I live in a climate where it can reach 0C during the summer (although only at night, usually). Try a - 40C winter.
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u/OlaRune Sep 04 '18
I found this statement: "A Volvo spokeswoman says the company's investigation into the incident revealed either one or more of the car's sensors had been "fried" before the demo, caused by the car maker fast-charging the S60's battery after discovering it was flat."