Three days of blizzards inflicted "the worst devastation in living memory" in the small Alpine country, local media said. More bad weather is expected this week.
Fluctuating temperatures caused snow to half melt and then freeze again, leaving parked cars entombed in a thick shell of ice.
In and around the city of Postojna, in the west, people used axes to try to free their cars from ice 15 cm (6 inches) thick.
With railways at a standstill and some petrol stations and even bank ATM machines frozen solid, the country faced millions of euros of losses through infrastructure damage and economic inertia. Slovenia's busiest port, Koper, ground to a halt.
Slovenia has suffered the worst weather in the region, which also hit neighbouring Croatia.
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