Welp…winter. It’s already tapped the freezing mark for us a couple of times here in the beautiful FL Panhandle, but we don’t have to live with it. We just get a taste, more’s the pity.
But for folks who live in areas where that thermometer takes a nosedive, I guess owning an EV takes some serious thought if you’re planning on doing any serious driving or hauling, and that’s one of the biggest knocks against them in the mind of consumers at the moment (Pricing and charging being the other two).
A chart popped up today that finally put some numbers to anecdotes from people online and various published accounts about the effect of cold on those EV batteries. It was pretty interesting.
Cold temperatures dramatically reduce an electric car’s range.
The colder it is, the more a car’s range will suffer.
18 popular EV models analyzed lost an average of ~30% of their…
