The cold hard truth about electric vehicles in winter

Re:The cold hard truth about electric vehicles in winter by buran77 on Sunday December 25, 2022 @05:36AM (#34125989)

You're hand waving away a lot of things here. People have the expectation of convenience and the current standard is whatever any regular car can do. When things fall short it can be a major inconvenience or even a deal breaker.

> It’s far from “a huge pain”.

You name "a huge pain" and someone will disagree. A lot of people would tell you that not having a car at all is far from a huge pain. Does that convince you to give it up?

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Re:The cold hard truth about electric vehicles in winter by mynameisvlad on Sunday December 25, 2022 @07:46AM (#34126779)

What, exactly, is being hand woven away? I’m describing the realities of EV ownership.

My car is always plugged in and therefore always at 80%. It takes a few hours after returning from a trip to charge it back up, regardless of the weather or other conditions, and the car is warmed up by the time I get into it using remote defrosting. In fact, during this snowstorm, my car always was consistently completely defrosted every time.

None of this sounds anywhere even remotely in the same ballpark as “a huge pain”.

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Re:The cold hard truth about electric vehicles in winter by jeffrallen on Sunday December 25, 2022 @09:28AM (#34127491)

I drive a 1972 Toyota Conora in the winter of 1990. One time it stopped and I had to walk to school. I got there late with MY HAIR FROZEN. That was a huge pain. Using a few extra amp hours of green electricity for 3 months a year to charge my 2019 Zoe is not a huge pain.

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