BEV Range Stuck On Freezing Temp?

True or False? EV battery mileage range without needing a recharge in freezing weather can go from 250 miles to 135 miles & requires nearly double the time to recharge. So argues Finley in her “Not So Fast on Electric Cars,” citing Toyota’s CEO “timely warning” about BEV readiness and as “many states echo it.”

The WSJ’s guest columnist was referencing the car company’s leader who recently “caused the climate lobby to blow a fuse by speaking a truth about battery electric vehicles that his fellow auto executives dare not: ‘I think BEVs are just going to take longer to become mainstream than the media would like us to believe,’” Akio Toyoda admitted for the record. And, while the Biden Administration “seems to believe that millions of Americans will rush out to buy EVs if only the government throws enough subsidies at them,” several states, like Maine, are telling the Federal Highway Administration that “’cold temperatures will remain a top challenge’ for adoption, since ‘cold weather reduces EV range and increases charging times.’”

Huh? Don’t recall that “factoid” in the big OR small print of the EV pr and advertisements. As Ms. Finley elaborates, however, “When temperatures drop to 5 degrees Fahrenheit, the cars achieve only 54% of their quoted range … A vehicle that’s supposed to be able to go 250 miles between charges will make it only 135 miles on average … At 32 degrees – a typical winter day in much of the country, a Tesla Model 3 that in ideal conditions can go 282 miles between charges will make it only 173 miles.” As Finley also wondered, “Imagine if the 100 million Americans who took to the road over the [freezing] holidays were driving EVs, how many would have been stranded as temperatures plunged?”

Davd Soul