I’ve always heard that EVs are not a great option if you live in really cold areas due to them not being very efficient in the cold. Why is that? And do gas powered vehicles have the same issue?
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Keep in mind that the overwhelming majority of new car sales in Norway are fully electric. Norway gets cold.
A better way of thinking about it, which is outlined in many of the responses to your post, is, “What are the different things you need to consider when operating different kinds of cars in extreme cold – electric, gasoline and Diesel?” They all have their pluses and minuses. Extreme cold is hard on everything. Today it’s -30F where I live, and my son parks his gasoline car outdoors. He should not try to start it until the weather warms up in a couple of days.
There are a lot of wannabe journalists, it seems, who like to bash electric cars. Like – Pulling a trailer decreases your range in an electric car!!! OMG!!! As if the same doesn’t happen in an internal combustion engine car. Electric cars catch on fire!!! Less often, per mile driven, it turns out, than gasoline cars. Electric cars can’t charge in the cold!!! Apparently, they do in Norway.
Naysayers gotta say nay.
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