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Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by jasonwatkinspdx on Friday November 27, 2020 @06:39AM (#25227818)
Discharge rate of batteries falls with temperature. 10C is a very common lower limit for high performance lion cells. There's a complex set of tradeoffs vs fundamental physical limits here. It's not at all a case of "aw shucks we forgot places other than CA exist" which is something you're just projecting onto the situation.
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Re:CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re Ame... by hinkley on Friday November 27, 2020 @07:57AM (#25228324)
I had to buy a new battery for my car because despite a battery shop and the dealer saying there was nothing wrong with the battery, short trips in the car below 10C would kill it in a week.

As someone else pointed out, the dew point is not something you want to explore with personal electronics.

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