“My wife’s Prius has had no issues even at MINUS THIRTY?”
What was the effect of 30 below on her car’s range?
If you search for articles about cold weather testing of electric vehicles, you will see that the tests are generally conducted just below freeezing (in the high twenties). See for example the big Norwegian test that is the most frequently cited. The loss of range at that temperature is only about 10-20%. But what if you live somewhere that is routinely a lot colder than that? A lot of Americans do. I had to do a 150 mile round trip in 25 degrees this evening and sit in the car with the heat on for 90 min at the other end. With present technology, I just could not count on that working out ok in an electric vehicle. If it was 10 or 29 degrees colder, I definitely could not have done that in an electric car. And for all the talk of Scandinavia, their citizens are buying EV because government policies financially incentivize them to do so.
“What was the effect of 30 below on her car’s range?”
It’s complicated.
Well before the snow arrives here in the Chicago area we are forced on ‘winter gas’ to save the earth. It is shite gas, everyone’s MPG drops. But somehow is good for the planet?
Mpg drops from in the fifties to the forties.
When the temperature drops into the single digits and wife likes to warm up the interior and melt the frost off the windows before driving , no scraping required...
From mid-fifties to 42-45 MPG. It is a Prius V the wagon version (a bit larger), seldom recognized, a stealth prius?
Well, it does have a large “ZERO TO SIXTY——EVENTUALLY”, bumper sticker, free from friends(?).
After it became know that the quarter time was a bit better than one of their Ram diesels.
NB: It is my wife’s car but she allows me to drive on occasion, and I like it.
Currently, I see it as the second-best car we ever had.
And gaining on our beloved #1 Suburban that we drove to Alaska and all four corners of the USA, plus many parts unknown.