How To Keep Electric Vehicles Charged In Extreme Cold

18 Jan 2024 | Abstracted from Forbes

"The experience for Tesla owners is a window into the cold, hard truth about the susceptibility of battery electric vehicles to the effects of very cold weather...The simple answer to why this happens is chemistry and physics..EVs can lose up to around 30% of their available power in cold weather...To combat the cold weather effect, EV owners are advised to conduct what’s known as preconditioning their vehicle’s battery."

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