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There are now more electric cars than gas cars on Norway's roads (electrek.co)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Well done, Norway!

[–] mudmaniac 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How are they dealing with the "cold weather kills the batteries" problem? I'm genuinely curious.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Easy - it's a myth :) Yes range is affected. Yes the car needs to precondition the battery (heat it up) before charging. But cold weather affects the range of gas powered cars too and we seem to have survived that just fine.

https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a60344222/does-an-ev-work-as-well-in-cold-weather/

/Swedish EV owner

[–] Kushan 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Let's not understate just how much the cold weather affects the range though: you can lose over 1/3 of your range just from cold weather.

That's not a scaremongering, worst case figure, that's about an average: https://www.whatcar.com/news/electric-car-best-winter-range/n24274

It's true that ICE cars are also affected, but they typically have more range to begin with and in most cases, filling stations are far more available than far chargers.

I want to be clear: I am an electric car owner myself, I love my electric car and will never look back, but the drop in range in winter is impactful enough that it will likely affect any electric car owner doing any kind of a vaguely long journey.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I mean, you're right, but you should scroll down to the bottom of the article. The drop is more like 20% between summer and winter. The top table compares the manufacturers claimed range vs what they get - the one at the bottom compared summer range to winter range regardless of manufacturer claims :)

(~20% is also our experience from the Tesla Model 3 we had for four years. This winter will be the first with the ID.7 - I have high hopes)

[–] mudmaniac 1 points 2 months ago

Ah. That is good to know.