Electric vehicles fail at a lower rate than gas cars in extreme cold | Electrek

To be fair, this data doesn’t adjust for the age of the vehicles. Older gas-powered cars fail at a higher rate than the new ones and electric vehicles are obviously much more recent on average.

Duh.

For 90% of driving, EVs are great in the winter. Even if it only had 100mi range, and it's so cold that it loses 40% of that, it's still better. You can get to work, do errands, and make it home to charge just fine.

Its going to warm up the cabin faster than an ICE. Not only that, but if you know when you're going to leave, you can set them to warm up ahead of time while still attached to the charger. You'll pop right in to a toasty warm cabin. Once you have that, you don't want to go back.

If the positions were swapped and ICE was a new thing, people would be writing op-eds about how cold they are for most of the drive to work.

First: It's a site dedicated to electric vehicle promotion. So it might be a tiny bit biased.

Second: Their criteria was for their claim was, "13 percent of the cases with starting difficulties are electric cars". Well, golly gosh gee, how surprising that an electric car would be easier to start in cold weather, since as long as you have any juice left in your battery, it's gonna go. You don't have problems like diesel fuel gelling, or oil turning into molasses. (If it gets cold enough, your battery might freeze solid, and then you have real problems.)

Finally: "[...] electric vehicles are involved in roughly 21% of all its cases so far in 2024" Given that Norway is roughly 25% electric vehicles--they don't give the exact percentage in the article--that's... Pretty much in line with overall percentages. It might even be high, given that EVs are more likely to be new than ICE vehicles.

If we're going to do cars--and I don't think that there's a reasonable alternative that can be brought to bear in a reasonable time--then I'm all for electric. But this isn't a great way to promote them.

People seem to forget that gas cars have a battery in them too and that fails in cold weather.

Bullshit.

Tesla forums and my own experience call bullshit on this.

The 12v battery of my own M3 died less than 3 years in from sale in moderate to low cold temps in Canada (Only like -30c max)

have affected the chargers themselves rather than the vehicles, according to local sources.

I can't find any news that confirm that?

Everyone is arguing about how they should fuel their cars, but I just want to see more electric powered transit.

My mum's 2019 Toyota Yaris has to have its engine run every few days or the battery dies from just sitting on the driveway. It could be a faulty car battery but considering this car isn't even that old and has barely driven 30k miles, it's not doing so great. I discovered yesterday that my EV charges better after I've driven it around and the battery's warmed up a bit. The car goes a bit haywire when you cold start so it seems like it needs some prep time before a drive.

Number eleven fail at lower rate that any car

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Never once in 25 years of living in northern Maine have I had an ICE engine not start in the cold. Fuck I can't remember even diesel engines falling because of glow plugs.

Yet on the first 0 day I can recall in a few years I have three friends stuck.

I'll believe this shit when I see some actual data that isn't a random company in Norway.

Batteries last longer in cold climates