Clean Technica By Johnna Crider 1/21/20
Electric vehicles lose a bit of range when it gets colder outside, but will still start reliably. In Saskatchewan, this is proving to be true.
Two words I don’t like in combination together are “extreme†and “cold.†I could handle the extreme without the cold, or the cold without the extreme, but not the two together. Speaking of insanely cold temperatures, a common issue that people have debated regarding EVs is how they handle extremely cold temperatures. The main problem is the range. Electric vehicles lose a bit of range when it gets colder outside, but will still start reliably. In Saskatchewan, this is proving to be true.
Matthew Pointer spoke to CBC about the issue of the cold and vehicle troubles. He noticed a lot of people having issues in the cold when he went to work last week, when it got down to negative 36 degrees Celsius. This makes me kind of grateful that it only got in the 30s last night where I live and will probably be back in the 80s again later this week.
Pointer is the founder and president of the Saskatchewan EV Association and says that the extreme cold reduced the range of his Tesla by 40 to 50%, but that it is still working better in the winter than his previous gas-powered vehicles. “I wake up with a ‘full tank’ every morning because I plug in at night and I wake up and my car’s fully charged in the morning,†he says. He gets more than enough range to do all of the stuff he needs to do every day. One of the good things, he points out, is that EVs have fewer moving parts than gasoline vehicles, and you are “essentially driving one massive battery that’s very good at maintaining its heat and keeping itself going,†he says.
More:
https://cleantechnica.com/2020/01/21/teslas-other-evs-in-extreme-cold-36c/
