Besides the obvious cold temperature that affect the batteries, it seems that everything else (incline, tires, air resistance, road conditions, etc) affect EVs disproportionately? Never heard of an ICEV loosing 50% range on a full tank because of bad conditions?
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yeah, it’s mostly because EV’s are so efficient when they’re efficient. but a lot of things can make them inefficient. whereas ICEV’s aren’t all that efficient to begin with, so there’s not a whole lot of things to make them even more inefficient. a lot of the ratings of EV’s might be under “too good to be practical conditions”. ie a 10% drop on efficiency for something running at 80% efficiency is way larger than a 10% drop on something running on 40% efficiency.
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