Electric cars can go only half as far in freezing weather, AAA finds

LA Times ^ | March 20, 2014 | Jerry Hirsch

[Ben Mugged]

Nuclear.

[OKSooner]

Do those things even have a d**m air conditioner? And what kind of range do they get with it running? About a fourth?

[cpdiii]

Why were the Chemical Engineers not informed of this?

Chemical Engineers drive diesels.

[wetphoenix]

Is anyone really surprised? Less battery capacity+heating.

[FredZarguna]

Of course, and they drove their diesels to work at GM, where they apparently did a calculation, and determined at $47,000 taxpayer subsidy per copy, the laws of economics were more important than the principles of electrochemistry.

[FredZarguna]

Remember, "overwhelming scientific consensus" only applies to positions that Democrats support. When the overwhelming consensus is for thermodynamics, reaction kinetics, electrochemistry, ... well that's just "hidebound science" standing in the way of the visionaries.

There is no basic chemical principle another $500 million taxpayer loan guarantee can't overcome -- just as long as it goes to an 0bama bundler.

[clearcarbon]

"Why were the Chemical Engineers not informed of this?"

More like, why were the Chemical Engineers not asked about this? On the other hand, if you expected to ignore the answer there probably was no point in asking.

[Smokin' Joe]

Well, DUH!

I have been saying all along they didn't have the range to keep you from getting frozen to death. Now, was that with or without the heater?

[Smokin' Joe]

How does AAA figure into the future of EV’s?

It'd take a scatpile of AAAs to run your EV....(that'll clean out the battery rack at walmart!)

Seriously, is the AAA going to end up having to pay for the service calls on the side of the road for the EVs that didn't make it to their destination?? How much will that raise their costs?

[Smokin' Joe]

What do you consider “cold”? (here, in ND, it is -20 to -30F and below, and anything above freezing is “warm” for a winter day)

[Vendome]

LOL!

Dork...

Too funny.

Freepers is He Larry Us!

[FredZarguna]

The entire gamut of green technologies is essentially based on ignoring scientific answers, so of course my question was rhetorical.

If green technologies were based on sound science, there would be real market advantages to using them. The fact that they're subsidized is proof that the science behind them is bad. Anything that is subsidized is simply moving entropy from one part of the economy to another to pay for it, and invariably that means more pollution, most cost, and less value somewhere else, and a net loss to the economy as a whole.