27 Jun 2023 10:53 pm
I keep hoping and searching for maybe, just one conservative idea I’ve ever held to be correct.
Surely just one thing, the old men in the barbershop say they heard on Fox News, just has to be true.
Alas, MAGA is inevitably wrong, every time, a perfect record of error.
——Some owners, though, didn’t anticipate such a big decline in the winter. **** Bhimani, who lives in a northern suburb of Detroit, said he sees about 30% lower range in his Tesla Model Y when the weather gets cold, from what’s supposed to be 330 miles per charge to as low as 230. “They should clarify that one,” he said while charging just south of Ann Arbor on a trip to Chicago.
Around three-quarters of this EV range loss is due to keeping occupants warm, but speed and even freeway driving are factors. Some drivers go to great lengths not to use much heat so they can travel farther, wearing gloves or sitting on heated seats to save energy.
And to be sure, gasoline engines also can lose around 15% of their range in the cold.
The range loss has not slowed EV adoption in Norway, where nearly 80% of new vehicle sales were electric last year.
Recent tests by the Norwegian Automobile Federation found models really vary. The relatively affordable Maxus Euniq6 came the closest to its advertised range and was named the winner. It finished only about 10% short of its advertised 354 km (220 mile) range. The Tesla S was about 16% percent under its advertised range. At the bottom: Toyota’s BZ4X, which topped out at only 323 kilometers (200 miles), nearly 36% below its advertised range.
Nils Soedal, from the Automobile Federation, calls the issue “unproblematic” as long as drivers take it into account when planning a trip. “The big issue really is to get enough charging stations along the road,” and better information on whether they’re working properly, he said——
My wife and I used to take long winter trips in an Expedition to Western South Dakota to see her family, about twenty years ago.
Driving north towards Sioux Falls, the mileage computer would read up to 17 mpg.
Turn West into 20 below temperatures against a strong headwind and you could see it start falling down to 13, then 12, and 11, and outside was like the surface of the moon, not one light on the horizon anywhere.
She and the kids would sleep and I knew, that if anything broke it was going to be a rather serious situation.
Sometimes gas stations were fifty miles apart.