“Electric cars suck bilgewater in cold weather, ...”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ5PqPeOPT0
Tesla Model S Cold Weather Range Test Norway
(Norwegian - ENGLISH SUBTITLES)
My best friend’s daughter has a Tesla S.
Even though she is a devoted Tesla partisan, she readily admits the range is much less useful in our frigid Indiana winter.
Thank God for the metric system.
I think a 25% reduction in range is nothing to brag about. Last I checked, my gas car gets a 0% reduction in range in cold weather.
But I am actually more interested in how hot weather affects it. I know for example that a Volt owner manual states not to leave the car out in the sun without being plugged in....energy is needed to cool the batteries. So I wonder what the extra drain would be to keep both occupant and batteries cool in hot weather....not California hot but hot and humid 105 degree days in the midwest and deep south.