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Cold-weather range hits aren’t as bad for EVs with heat pumps (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (36 children)

The average commute is 52 miles. Most EVs sold in the US have a range of 250 miles or more.

No one cares about "average commute" when buying an electric car and considering the offered range. They're thinking about long trips.

So a resistive heater eating 10% of your range is way less of an issue than your battery not charging properly in cold weather.

Who said anything about batteries "not charging properly"? What does that even mean?

heat pumps should be available, but they aren't going to save you if cold weather kills your battery.

We're not talking about killing batteries, we're talking about electric range. Heat pumps extend your electric range and 20 miles can absolutely be the difference between making it to the next charger or not.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 week ago (12 children)

If only plug-in hybrids existed...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Which have a whole bunch of issues of their own. Like increased mechanical complexity, and that you might use gas so seldom that it becomes significantly water by the time you do need it.

[–] kalleboo 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Modern PHEVs are smart enough to run the gas engine occasionally to keep it from going bad

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

And now it's using gas when it didn't otherwise need to.

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