I see and hear about a random EV that has X range in 20 degree (Celsius) weather, steady speed of 110 km/h, but Y range (significant difference) if it’s 130 km/h. Even more of a difference if it’s 0 degrees.
If it needs to pull a trailer with 500kg it loses, i don’t know, 25% of the range?
There are probably other examples. I’m not talking these specific examples, i just mean in general.
Nobody ever talks about that when it comes to cars that run on gas or diesel, i assume because it doesnt affect them as much. Why?
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For most things it does affect gas/diesel cars the exact same way but for those cars nobody cares about range on a single tank, when you hear about it it is usually in the context of cosumption like liter per 100km. If you look up liter per 100km for a car it will have a disclamier somewhere that should say you at what speed and so on.
The one diffrence for EVs is cold temps because the heater in an EV is an electric heater that takes extra energy in a gas car the heat is just taken from the engine because the engine produces the heat anyway so you dont spend any more fuel on it.
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