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Electric vehicles fail at a lower rate than gas cars in extreme cold | Electrek (electrek.co)
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[โ€“] doingless -5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Those laws stopped like four people. People warm up their ICE cars in the cold. And what kind of remote start shuts off after 10 minutes? I've had a few cars with remote start and never even heard of this. Even if that was the case, set a 10m timer on your phone and restart it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

There are vehicles that have those features. Back before I retired as a medic, the new ambulance we got had that feature from Ford, (Ford makes 90% of all certified ambulance chassis in the US). It was quite disconcerting to hear the engine shutdown and restart by itself.

I was less than impressed by it because of all the electrical devices and lights we constantly run. If it fails to restart and the batteries are dead, someone else might be also.