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Re:Electric Car Owners Confront a Harsh Foe: Cold Weather by TD-Linux on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @09:27AM (#39028124)
All electric cars already do this, either with resistive heaters directly on the batteries or with water heaters in the coolant loop.
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Re:Electric Car Owners Confront a Harsh Foe: Cold Weather by hgomersall on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @09:28AM (#39028137)
Presumably once going the internal losses keep it warm?
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Re:Electric Car Owners Confront a Harsh Foe: Cold Weather by randomfrogs on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @09:45AM (#39028401)
Depends on the car. My Bolt battery takes a LONG time to get warm just from driving, even with the battery heater running. You can speed it up a bit with yoyo driving (speed up to use power, then regen brake to dump power back into the battery, repeat as necessary) for about a half hour.
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