Why electric vehicles struggle in extreme cold | BBC News
Driving a car in the winter can be quite the headache but electric vehicle owners are facing a whole new set of challenges as temperatures dip the gold is affecting two crucial elements of the EV experience the driving range and the charging speed I’ve been here for over 5
Hours at this point and the reason for both comes down to their power source lithium ion batteries lithium ion battery lithium ion battery lithium ion batteries like all other batteries they run on chemical reactions the movement of el R and ions from one terminal of the battery to the other chemical
Reactions happen faster when it’s hotter and slower when it’s colder and since some of the cars battery power in the winter is being redirected to maintain optimal battery temperature and heat the car cabin your ev’s driving range could be reduced by as much as 25% the cold also affects the battery
Charge companies actually slow the charging speed of EVS since charging your car when it’s below freezing can make the battery unstable and more likely to fail so much for bad news but there is something that can be done for one taking fewer short trips each time
An Eevee stops it cools down and needs to be reheated when started up again that drains the battery Tesla also recommends keeping your car plugged in and retaining a minimum of 20% charge at all other times and since warm batteries charge more easily driving for at least 30 minutes before charging your car
Could speed up the process car companies are working on making electric vehicles more efficient in the winters and in the end perhaps what EVs lack in efficiency during cold spells they make up for in environmental Impact
Freezing temperatures affect electric vehicles in two major ways – and it all comes down to the battery.
Tesla and other car manufacturers have given drivers instructions on how to cope.
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32 comments
People need to realise Nio battery swap is rhe future.
EV summer car
Good news for the arabs😂
They should make the charger, directly activate the heating process in the Millenium Falcon 🙂
I car dose just fine in Freezing temperatures, Its a 2023 not a EV .
climate change levels ,of Snowfall is declining globally as temperatures warm because of human-caused climate change, a new analysis and maps from climate scientist society
BBC a Nazi Zionist news channel.
Electric car is just scam for public politicians are using petrol and diesel cars politicians and media is scamming public to buy electric cars
Junk.
🖕Musk RAT
Sweden being so cold has all electric cars , maybe people need to ditch Tesla and buy Chinese cars
Can be fixed. The battery has liquid cooling. Simply stop the pump.
Its cool how you guys note that BBC is a british broascasting channel…i really thought it was something else..
Agenda nonsense as usual from the bbc (British Brainwashing Corporation)
Stay Indoors.
Or we’ll mess up every flight, train journey and car journey on purpose, to make you.
To all law abiding, tax paying voters: Cars can run on water by splitting the hydrogen out, but there is no money, tax or centralised control in that, no control of our freedom of movements, so our “elected representatives” say we can’t have it.
Environmental impact of manufacturing lion battery 🔋😂😅😊
basic science. battery performance. humans are becoming dumber.
That's not EV's problem. You are buying wrong product for your weather. DO RESEARCH BEFORE PAYING SOMETHING.
LTO lithium titanate batteries can work up-to -50c
Because you guys don't plug your car in overnight and you don't preheat your car
Because somebody try to write a new science and physics..and medicine like Plandemic and the Magic Vaxx…i forgot the New Biology…
so basically they are saying that if you don't want your battery to die, do not use the car so that you can have charge to drive it. wait 🤔
Everyone warned these EV people. Yet people still buy then. I am lost for words.
So much for an EV future.
Simple solution, Winter car and a summer car. Can't everyone afford it? (the Elites can)………………………
I couldn’t understand half of what she was saying. BBC should hire an English speaking as a first language personnel to narrate or report in English.
Better don't buy tesla n all
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Do you know how many times my lead acid battery was dead, my engine was too cold to turnover, my alternator or radiator broke and left me stranded, etc? You’re all acting like the pos cars on the market right now are better? Reality is tough but you should try and face it 😂
1:37 Perhaps?
The EV 'experience'? What the hell is an EV 'experience'? You mean to say, the EV Experiment that has failed so miserably. It is not an 'experience' as the female British narrator of this shows claims but more pointedly, an industry-wide systematic failure, a failed experiment with your money, these electric cars are. Tesla will never iron out the bugs, nor will Ford or GM or Audi or any other car maker. The entire EV industry should be recalled out of existence. God bless fossil fuels.
Have you seen what cold does to oil #sludge
EV is a scam for cold country 🙂 you need another technology of battery to worth having one