Re:The cold hard truth about electric vehicles in winter
by devwastaken on Monday December 26, 2022 @09:25PM
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An extra 1KW would actually charge the car given time. Not just keep the battery warm. 1kwh is supposedly about 4 miles. Charge for 12 hours overnight, you have enough to get to the supercharger.
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Re:The cold hard truth about electric vehicles in winter
by pandaman on Monday December 26, 2022 @10:37PM
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In the OP story, the car was losing charge while plugged into 110V outlet, that means that 1.5 kW was not enough to keep the battery warm. An extra 1kWh might or might not get it into actually charging and even if it's been charging at 1kW it would not get 4 miles per hour, the car driving in these conditions would still use energy to keep the battery pack at the working temperature.