Simply turn on the heater before you go out to the car. In less than 10 minutes, it will be toasty warm and all the snow / ice will have been dealt with. We've had our X in plenty of very cold situations and never had the doors stuck. I guess I never checked the windows because ... well ... why would I open the windows in those conditions?
So you live California and you're telling me what it's like to own a Tesla in snow country.
Let me guess you vacation 2 weeks a year in Tahoe or something, right?
First I had no idea pre-heat would have been even needed that day 32F and sunny (I vaguely recalled a couple flurries that day after I realized it was frozen). It could flurry any day. And I can guarantee 10 minutes would not have touched it. If it was cloudy and 28F that day it would have not been a problem. The flurry stuck to the glass and melted down the window. The Windows get frozen to the felt strip outside but inside the door (heat does not get to where it's frozen very easily). When I did click the door handle the door only opened a crack I could here a motor running and nothing happening, not good. At first I thought it was the door opener and it was fighting with ice. So I helped the door open, not a good idea. Didn't realize it was the Window not going down that stopped the door from opening and it was the Window Motor fighting to lower the frozen window that I could hear. I managed to stop it (from burning out the motor) by whacking the glass downward with my fist, several times, big crack sound when it broke loose. It went down to it's normal height and the motor stopped. What if that was my wife?
My wh/mi miles would go through the roof if I had to preheat every day that it *might* freeze. My commute is 5 miles. Efficiency is bad enough without preheating. This was when leaving work which has no garage.
With a garage I don't have to do anything in morning. With a "normal" car, like my wife's she had zero issue. No TLC, no remembering you need to pre-heat before you leave, no need to monitor the weather that day. And if it's real ice storm, even for an ICE, it's gonna take a lot longer than 10 minutes.
In fact, my wife's Volt was frozen the other day (I avoided taking the X because I knew that day it could). We preheated the Volt. It took us like 45 minutes to free it up from ice to make it drivable. As did all the other ICE cars nearby. It was a solid inch of mixed snow/ice. You have no idea. So happy I left the X home in the garage that day.
Your Tesla Model X must be different from mine, because the WINDOWS have to open to open the door !! As do all Tesla's unfortunately.
I can and do deal with it (some days by just leaving the Tesla at home). And if I know it's frozen I'll preheat. If I forgot or not sure when I get to the X, I'll test it with Window Vent option next time before touching the door handle. But then I might have 4 motors fighting to open 4 windows, ugh. Oh and every window was frozen on that snow flurry day. I was hoping X would be better than the Model 3. It's not. At least the door handles don't freeze like Model 3 does.
I love my Model X. But I'm not gonna sugar coat what it's like to own a Tesla in snow country. It could be a LOT better. But I can partly deal with it because I have a garage. If someone around here asks me with no garage, I flat out say, it's not a good idea.