It’s strange because most people don’t need to charge at a public charger unless they’re on road trip. And it would be really stupid to take a road trip in a -40 degree blizzard.

And if the charger isn’t down, I’d expect it to power the car’s battery heating/cooling system for a bit before starting the charge. Is this not the case?

Edit: After reading two more articles on this and thinking about this some more — is this “traffic jam” at the charger caused by the design of the heat pump used by Tesla to warm the battery? Can it not exchange enough heat in -40 weather?