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Electric vehicles fail at a lower rate than gas cars in extreme cold | Electrek (electrek.co)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (71 children)

For 90% of driving, EVs are great in the winter. Even if it only had 100mi range, and it's so cold that it loses 40% of that, it's still better. You can get to work, do errands, and make it home to charge just fine.

Its going to warm up the cabin faster than an ICE. Not only that, but if you know when you're going to leave, you can set them to warm up ahead of time while still attached to the charger. You'll pop right in to a toasty warm cabin. Once you have that, you don't want to go back.

If the positions were swapped and ICE was a new thing, people would be writing op-eds about how cold they are for most of the drive to work.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (25 children)

TBF you can turn on an ICE car and let it warm up a bit before you drive it. Some ICE cars also allow you to remotely pre-start or there are after market options so you can use an app to do exactly that. Hell, Russian far east they simply leave the car on for the cold months.

It's just that it's incredibly wasteful/polluting.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

IIRC you can fit an ICE vehicle with an electric engine block heater which will use mains electricity to heat the water and circulate it through the engine. So you run an extension cord out to your car, leave it plugged in and turn it on half an hour before you leave.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yep it's what people in northern Sweden have been doing for probably at least 40 years now.

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