Electric Vehicles are not practical in cold weather regions like Chicago. (highway, revolution)
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just like banning incandescent bulbs, the market solved it by developing superior led lighting. i am confident Chinese EV makers will solve the issues plaguing EVs so that everyone can own an EV regardless of the temperature. also, if everyone had an EV the climate would stop changing and you no longer would have to worry about extreme hot or cold weather as the earth will reach a static temperature of 72 degrees and the north and south poles will be static at negative 500 degrees so the ice caps will always be frozen.
No, but the difficulties with ICE vehicles in cold weather are easier to mitigate and prevent.
Make sure you have a good battery.
Bring your battery indoors in really cold weather.
Get a jump if necessary.
Block heaters if necessary.
All these things are relatively easy ways to make sure your ICE vehicle functions in extreme cold.
Of course the most common reason a car doesn't start is because your battery is just old.
If you have not been driving your car much, and even when you do drive it, it's only for short trips? Then the battery never really charges fully. In that case, get a battery tender. It will make sure your battery stays charged, and warmed up in winter.
Battery tenders will also extend the life of your battery. A battery fails more quickly if it's always called upon to start your car when it's not fully charged. All that current can cause one of your battery's cells to short out and go dead, which is very hard on all the other cells. Rinse, repeat, until your battery can't start the car anymore.
Just my opinion, but, electric vehicles are still a very new phenomenon in the United States and all the "bugs" still haven't been worked out. Successfully getting all the "bugs" worked out is something that will just have to come with time as each new "bug," pops up for Tesla to make right.
I saw a Tesla parked on a street in Mpls with cord coming from the house it was at. It’s not as if you need a full charge all day/every day to have an EV. Do you need a full tank of fuel every single time you use said vehicle? They work for some, they don’t work for everyone.
I’m not even a fan of EV’s either, but once they get pickup trucks figured out, I’ll switch my work truck to one. Cut my weekly fuel bill down massively.
It took the internal combustion engine vehicles literally decades to finally become a viable alternative to horses. The EV industry is currently going through the same phases. Give it time they'll solve it.
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