MidnightJester
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To the people that it works with most of them drive less then 100 miles each way, Usually, Not all but most. That works. Driving beyond the battery packs range is Risky in the cold just too many real life stories and articles to say otherwise.
Yes there are articles and testimonials that show it does work in the cold but they are cherry picking the trip and charging locations & times usually and that doesn't work for the spur of the moment and off times. Wasting even a single hour to charge a EV car while MID-trip once is not really acceptable to me,
How do you work on a Snow trip with limited charge going or coming from the Mountain and there is a (2,3,4) Hour delay on the access roads and surrounding highways. You can stop and get a tank of gas at enough locations or even be brought gas on the road. The same is far far from the current truth of EV vehicles. One day maybe but not now and not in the frozen long term cold. A 100% or dead EV in a parking lot and even in a CHARGING LOT or on the side of the road cant be recharged "YET" where it is. Needs to be towed away.
Some, Most EV's brick themselves to protect the EV battery nearing total discharge. No recharging where it sits.
Most if not all dealers charge to un-brick and to get a EV's battery to again accept a charge if you screw up. Hundreds and Hundreds if not Thousands with a TOW.
Yes there are articles and testimonials that show it does work in the cold but they are cherry picking the trip and charging locations & times usually and that doesn't work for the spur of the moment and off times. Wasting even a single hour to charge a EV car while MID-trip once is not really acceptable to me,
How do you work on a Snow trip with limited charge going or coming from the Mountain and there is a (2,3,4) Hour delay on the access roads and surrounding highways. You can stop and get a tank of gas at enough locations or even be brought gas on the road. The same is far far from the current truth of EV vehicles. One day maybe but not now and not in the frozen long term cold. A 100% or dead EV in a parking lot and even in a CHARGING LOT or on the side of the road cant be recharged "YET" where it is. Needs to be towed away.
Some, Most EV's brick themselves to protect the EV battery nearing total discharge. No recharging where it sits.
Most if not all dealers charge to un-brick and to get a EV's battery to again accept a charge if you screw up. Hundreds and Hundreds if not Thousands with a TOW.
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