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Re:The cold hard truth about electric vehicles in winter by Dylan16807 on Saturday December 24, 2022 @08:07PM (#34122968)
You think it's the proponents that miss that it doesn't need to be 100%? The arguments I see that act like it has to be 100% EVs are basically all anti-EV arguments.
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Re:The cold hard truth about electric vehicles in winter by fwungy on Saturday December 24, 2022 @11:57PM (#34124429)
States are mandating no ICE sales by 2035. That is why people are becoming anti-EV. No one would care about EV policy if it wasnt being forced on an insane schedule.
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Re:The cold hard truth about electric vehicles in winter by Karrot_Kream on Sunday December 25, 2022 @02:54AM (#34125276)
No new car sales, and PHEVs are included which should solve edge cases. That's very different than all cars. Also, most of CA doesn't get cold enough that any of this discussion is relevant.
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Re:The cold hard truth about electric vehicles in winter by tomjakubowski on Sunday December 25, 2022 @03:52AM (#34125516)
PHEVs really seem like the best of both worlds. What's the downside?
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Re:The cold hard truth about electric vehicles in winter by nottorp on Sunday December 25, 2022 @04:42AM (#34125711)
Costs. Complexity. You have a large battery, a gasoline engine with a transmission and 2+ electric engines in a PHEV. And they all need maintenance in the long run.

This will be hopefully mitigated when all PHEVs only run the gas engine as a generator and get rid of the transmission, but I don't think we're there yet.

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Re:The cold hard truth about electric vehicles in winter by Dylan16807 on Sunday December 25, 2022 @11:57AM (#34128746)
> This will be hopefully mitigated when all PHEVs only run the gas engine as a generator and get rid of the transmission, but I don't think we're there yet.

If it's cheaper then they'll do it.

More generally, you can remove a chunk of the transmission in a hybrid and use a simpler engine even if it's not a generator. The complexity isn't a big deal. And the moderate cost gets offset by significant fuel savings.

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