Or maybe what does not starting mean?
So you could have someone who forgot to charge their car overnight, or is trying to eek out a few extra km to get to a charging location but doesn't make it, but...
EVs have a regular 12v battery in addition to the main battery pack. That battery can be just as temperamental as one starting a fossil fuel engine- performance OK until cold weather lets you know it's bad. When it's low on charge, you can't get all (any?) of the doors to open. Teslas with the 12v battery will refuse to start without it, although there seems to be a service method whereby you can bypass that by jump starting the 12v battery from the battery pack, or some other method. You'd then be able to drive somewhere to get it serviced, but if you let it "sleep" it's going to rely on the 12v battery again. I imagine other EVs are similar, and I'm not sure how well they recover from low charge 12v batteries.

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