Oddly enough this was never something I even questioned about EVs. There shouldn’t be any real difference in winter drivability just because of a different power source. Tires do most of the heavy lifting there. Cold weather does other things to EVs but the general drivability doesn’t degrade anymore than an ICE vehicle. The second half of the article goes into a lot more of the drawbacks of EVs and why they’re less of a drawback as time goes on.
I think most fears about EVs are about the reduced range in winter, especially when combined with fast travel:
What if I need to drive 800 kilometers over the winter holidays, with subzero temperatures, highway speeds, and a car packed to the brim - all of which severely reduce range?
And sure, this is probably the toughest scenario for EV range calculations.
Yeah that kind of stuff is covered in the second half. The first half and the title seem to allude that people just think EVs drive worse than their ICE counter parts somehow in cold weather.
various YouTube videos, and Reddit and Quora threads — often featuring inaccurate or misleading information — all essentially telling potential EV owners that if they want to drive in colder months, they’re better off buying a gas-powered car.
When I told a friend of mine I was going to the Arctic to drive EVs, their response was: “Do they even work in the cold?”
Oddly enough this was never something I even questioned about EVs. There shouldn’t be any real difference in winter drivability just because of a different power source. Tires do most of the heavy lifting there. Cold weather does other things to EVs but the general drivability doesn’t degrade anymore than an ICE vehicle. The second half of the article goes into a lot more of the drawbacks of EVs and why they’re less of a drawback as time goes on.
I think most fears about EVs are about the reduced range in winter, especially when combined with fast travel:
And sure, this is probably the toughest scenario for EV range calculations.
Yeah that kind of stuff is covered in the second half. The first half and the title seem to allude that people just think EVs drive worse than their ICE counter parts somehow in cold weather.