Yes, that takes power, but guess watt, a lot of the time, your car is going to be plugged in and charging when the scheduled preconditioning happens. This effectively means that the car warms up the batteries before you drive off. Not ideal, for sure, but in a universe where average commutes are a lot less than the average range of a modern electric vehicle, this isn’t nearly as big of a deal as you would think.īesides, a lot of modern EVs ( including Teslas) have the option to precondition the battery before you drive off.
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Indeed, batteries don’t love the cold either their range can drop by 10% to 15% due to the temperature, and if you’re driving around with your heater on full blast so you don’t turn into an icicle yourself, that range drop can be significantly more significant. So, humans live in places where machines are unhappy, but we’ve been finding workarounds for as long as we’ve had machines to drive around in. Yes, that includes diesel cars in particular (because they don’t have a spark plug, only a glow plug to get the cycle started), and gasoline cars. I grew up in Norway, and in cold weather, cars need to be plugged into a block heater. Metals contract, liquids get goopy or freeze up altogether, and none of that is convenient. Put simply, all mechanical objects with liquids in them hate cold weather. But the state of luxury is not down to their ability to operate in a dusting of snow and with a nip of frost in the air. Sure, many EVs are, in fact, luxury vehicles you’d be hard-pressed to find an EV that’s under $40,000. This opinion (I mean act of subterfuge) couches EVs as a luxury item in cold-weather countries because the batteries don’t work as well as on the balmy shores of California. A publication that shall not be named ( merely linked to) published an opinion piece that is the latest in a string of false narratives around EVs.
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