EV owners of today and tomorrow

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   / EV owners of today and tomorrow #1,481  
Overall for short town trips the EV is the best winter car I have ever owned and there was that one day that in a no warning emergency( truck block heaters not plugged in) the Tesla was the only one that would "start" and was nice and warm and ready to go in about 5 minutes.
Hold on here… The Tesla was outside unplugged like the ICE vehicles were?🤔
 
   / EV owners of today and tomorrow #1,483  
Hold on here… The Tesla was outside unplugged like the ICE vehicles were?🤔
Tesla was inside the unheated garage and unplugged IIRC -17*F inside the car before I turned on the cars heat. The charger is mounted outside of the garage.

Trucks were in fact outside one in a carport.

It was only a couple mile trip. Car was using something like 1400WH per mile. Yikes. Both trucks are diesels. Batteries were on the way out on my truck. Changed them out a couple months later. Had either trucks block heater been plugged in for an hour or two they would have started. Pipes were frozen and we were worried about breaking and flooding at FIL's house so we had to go in a hurry. Had the trucks been plugged in overnight they would have easily started, but we were not planning on going anywhere.

It is just the way things happened to go that day.
 
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   / EV owners of today and tomorrow #1,484  
The mileage in my ICE vehicles is about 25% less in winter. My range goes from 400 miles in the summer to about 300 miles in the winter.
Wait! We are lead to believe ICE suffers no range reduction in the winter! That reduced range is unique to EV!

There are several contributing factors:

Winter blend gas
Headlights always on
Headlights? Really?

Heater always on
ICE heater is supposed to be "free" excess heat from the engine. Have we been lied to?

Occasional warm up before driving
Rolling resistance in slush/snow

Sorry for the non-EV post ;)
Nothing to be sorry for, is right on topic.
 
   / EV owners of today and tomorrow #1,487  
Wait! We are lead to believe ICE suffers no range reduction in the winter! That reduced range is unique to EV!


Headlights? Really?


ICE heater is supposed to be "free" excess heat from the engine. Have we been lied to?


Nothing to be sorry for, is right on topic.
Yep, lecticity ain't free, even in my ice vehicle. Gotta run that blower motor.
 
   / EV owners of today and tomorrow #1,488  
Yep, lecticity ain't free, even in my ice vehicle. Gotta run that blower motor.
Two 55W headlight bulbs for an hour is 1/4 of a mile of range in my Model Y (if it used incandescent headlights).

So in stead of going 70 miles in an hour, with headlights one only gets 69.75 miles.
 
   / EV owners of today and tomorrow #1,489  
My 360 mile range on my ocean has dropped to about 240 mile in the winter. I don't use the top or bottom 20% of the battery, so that reduces me to about 144 mile potential from the original 360 mile range.

Still, the most I ever travel in a day is 100 miles. It takes a few days for me to charge up off my solar system after that though.
 
   / EV owners of today and tomorrow #1,490  
Among your GE buddies. . Sure.
Keep repeating it to yourself and maybe it will come true?

1. The earth is flat.
2. The earth is is a propane tank.
3. Nuclear bombs and power are fake.
4. Jet fuel is not real or needed.
5. If you let go of something in a car and it doesn’t immediately accelerate to the cars moving mph it means the car is standing still.
6. If the sun sets and you grab your binoculars and you can’t make the sun come back into view it means your going to h e double hockey sticks.
7. If the earth is not “perfectly round” it means it must be flat.
8. Every rocket launch ever eye witnessed was just a fancy pyrotechnics show.
9. @tradosaurus is smarter than 99.9999999% of scientists(even though he might have a middle school crush on a dude named Neil) that have ever lived.

For those who weren’t there this a break down of the old flat earth thread.
 
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