{"id":181538,"date":"2021-02-18T09:03:56","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T06:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/elon-musk-slams-texas-power-grid-operator\/"},"modified":"2021-02-18T09:03:56","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T06:03:56","slug":"elon-musk-slams-texas-power-grid-operator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/elon-musk-slams-texas-power-grid-operator\/","title":{"rendered":"#Elon Musk slams Texas power grid operator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Elon Musk slams Texas power grid operator<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/56ED3110-5DB3-49D7-B867-91ED89F1F2A4.jpeg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Tesla CEO Elon Musk slammed the Texas electrical grid operator on Wednesday for being unreliable after millions of residents were left without power during a historic winter storm that brought record freezing temperatures in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Musk<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1361962505573031938\"> tweeted <\/a>that the state\u2019s energy agency, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), \u201cis not earning that R.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In December, the billionaire moved from California to Austin, where he\u2019s building a new Tesla factory.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Texans posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> that they slept in their Tesla cars to keep warm during the cold nights.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, Tesla <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/forums.tesla.com\/discussion\/170224\/camp-mode-is-great\">released a vehicle<\/a> with a \u201cCamp Mode\u201d feature that allows owners to use the car\u2019s climate control for more than a day without depleting the battery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had the power go out for 6 hours last night. Our house does not have gas, and we ran out of firewood . . . what are we going to do,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/teslamotors\/\">wrote one Reddit user<\/a> on the forum r\/TeslaMotors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo my wife my dog and my newborn daughter slept in the garage in our Model3 all nice and cozy. If I didn\u2019t have this car, it would have been a very rough night,\u201d the user added. <\/p>\n<p>One Twitter user wrote: \u2018\u201dI slept in the Tesla LOL. Pretty comfortable. More importantly, warm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Texas Gov. Greg Abbott <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GregAbbott_TX\/status\/1361763801960304641\">announced<\/a> on Tuesday he\u2019s calling for an investigation into the \u201canything but reliable\u201d energy company after more than four million residents had to endure freezing temperatures during the blackout. <\/p>\n<p>ERCOT said electricity had been restored to 600,000 homes and businesses by Tuesday night, but nearly three million still had no power. <\/p>\n<p>Officials did not provide a clear timeline as to when power would be fully restored.<\/p>\n<p><em>With Post wires<\/em>\n            <\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Musk tweeted that the state\u2019s energy agency, the Electric Reliability Council of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":181539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/56ED3110-5DB3-49D7-B867-91ED89F1F2A4.jpeg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[74871,93894,39394,36402,6474],"class_list":["post-181538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-electricity","tag-2-18-21","tag-elon-musk","tag-tesla","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}