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Electric vehicles suck in frigid weather
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Electric vehicles suck in frigid weather
These clowns should've bought a hybrid vehicle instead:
https://www.wxyz.com/news/region/detroi ... mperatures
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/ ... 253545007/
The WXYZ story is particularly good.
https://www.wxyz.com/news/region/detroi ... mperatures
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/ ... 253545007/
The WXYZ story is particularly good.
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Re: Electric vehicles suck in frigid weather
Three too many words...
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Re: Electric vehicles suck in frigid weather
Fair point. Perhaps I should've said they suck even more than usual in frigid weather.
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Re: Electric vehicles suck in frigid weather
The auto makers had to have known about this.
https://www.gm.ca/en/home/company/canad ... round.html
https://www.gm.ca/en/home/company/canad ... round.html
Re: Electric vehicles suck in frigid weather
The Ford F150 Lightning has a range drop of about 70%. It's a problem several companies have figured out.
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Re: Electric vehicles suck in frigid weather
Which companies have solved the problem?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/17/busi ... ather.html
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/16/12249136 ... treme-cold
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/17/busi ... ather.html
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/16/12249136 ... treme-cold
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Re: Electric vehicles suck in frigid weather
Besides charging issues, how do you keep tires and rims on those Tesla's?
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Re: Electric vehicles suck in frigid weather
A couple of thoughts after reading the linked articles:
I have many friends who walk in the door and plug their cellphone in, regardless of it's current state. And it stays plugged in even if it's been fully charged for hours.
What's the pros and cons of EV owners doing the same? When they're home, it's plugged in. Even though a home charge is slower than a commercial charging station, sure seems it would help somewhat, especially the bloke in the first WXYZ link.
Secondly, and this applies to fair weather too. If you're spending all that money for an EV, seems you could also afford a gently used backup fossil fueled ride to drive during crummy weather and long drives.
Just random thoughts while I hold down the Bell Curve of Performance here at work. Make everyone else look good.
I have many friends who walk in the door and plug their cellphone in, regardless of it's current state. And it stays plugged in even if it's been fully charged for hours.
What's the pros and cons of EV owners doing the same? When they're home, it's plugged in. Even though a home charge is slower than a commercial charging station, sure seems it would help somewhat, especially the bloke in the first WXYZ link.
Secondly, and this applies to fair weather too. If you're spending all that money for an EV, seems you could also afford a gently used backup fossil fueled ride to drive during crummy weather and long drives.
Just random thoughts while I hold down the Bell Curve of Performance here at work. Make everyone else look good.
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Re: Electric vehicles suck in frigid weather
The solution is simple. Haul a generator on a trailer behind you.
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Re: Electric vehicles suck in frigid weather
Well, the best solutions so far involve heating the batteries from an external source. My buddy who is 100% battery/solar in his bus uses a tiny super efficient diesel heater when it gets below 10⁰.craig11152 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 18, 2024 10:41 amThe solution is simple. Haul a generator on a trailer behind you.
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Re: Electric vehicles suck in frigid weather
Sorry, this is his house systems on the bus.
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Re: Electric vehicles suck in frigid weather
Electric vehicles have been around for over 100 years. I saw them at antique car shows in the 1960s. Under the hood there were a bunch of 12V Lead Acid batteries. They were from circa 1930. I also used an electric golf cart type vehicle to deliver internal mail to dozens of plants and locations in an auto manufacturing complex one summer, while in undergraduate college. You had to go on city streets some of the time between plants. I was scared that the charge would run out sometimes.
I think electric vehicles have a place. Going on short jaunts to grocery stores, home repair and DIY and office supply stores, the post office and private shipping facilities, doctors appointments, church activities, and other short driving distances for examples.
They need Zoning Changes to allow masonry constructed garages with breakaway roofs 20 feet from residences because the batteries catch fire and explode.
But not long distances more than 100 miles round trip. You need some variation of a fossil fuel vehicle or new SAFE hydrogen power technology being developed for longer trips.
I think electric vehicles have a place. Going on short jaunts to grocery stores, home repair and DIY and office supply stores, the post office and private shipping facilities, doctors appointments, church activities, and other short driving distances for examples.
They need Zoning Changes to allow masonry constructed garages with breakaway roofs 20 feet from residences because the batteries catch fire and explode.
But not long distances more than 100 miles round trip. You need some variation of a fossil fuel vehicle or new SAFE hydrogen power technology being developed for longer trips.
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Re: Electric vehicles suck in frigid weather
Chrysler is already testing a hydrogen/ev hybird
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