Electric Vehicles Don't Like The Cold

People in the parts of the country experiencing the arctic freeze are having trouble charging their EVs. Don't you dare use that heater! 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
How about the way electric cars are performing during this
giant winter storm going across the country. That has been
eye opening to a certain crowd that wasn't paying attention.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Those lines in.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Chicago of people trying to charge their vehicles because they
don't work when it's this cold and the battery goes
dead and all that sort of stuff. Another of zing
for the electric car world hurts and other car companies
change in their mind last second, I guess we won't
go eighty percent electric vehicles like Hurtz was supposed to

(00:32):
next week.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
They changed their mind because nobody wanted them.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Now, this giant winter storm hits and you got lines
hours long in Chicago for people to try to charge
up their teslas that they just found out don't.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Work when it's cold. I mean, that's a problem.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
A kind of car that only works in the Southwest
is not really you know a direction we can go.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Oh, we got a federally mandate. Everybody's got to be
driving them by twenty thirty five. Yeah, it's idiotic. Now
you're an electric car guy because it fits the climate
in your lifestyle and.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
The rest of it doesn't, say an electric car guy. Well,
I've got another car. Also, Yeah, it.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Would never be my only car. I would never do that.
Oh yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
My point was only that you know more about them
than I do. Wasn't that known about very cold weather
with electric cars?

Speaker 1 (01:22):
At least by somebody? It's been known, But I don't
know those people in Chicago. Like, I wouldn't buy an
electric car if I lived in Wisconsin or Chicago or
someplace like that from what I've read about the way
the cold temperatures affect it.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
But yeah, what's that, Michael?

Speaker 1 (01:38):
What I just heard was that the batteries have to
get to a certain temperature before you can actually start charging.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
I mean that's where the problem is. Uh yeah, that's right.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
Yeah, we actually have some decent sound on that hit
twenty Michael?

Speaker 4 (01:51):
Would you this winter growing frustrations for drivers stuck waiting
at charging stations?

Speaker 2 (01:57):
The problem the cars run on lithium.

Speaker 4 (01:59):
Batteries, which can take longer to charge than cold temperatures.
You may even need to charge more often. According to
Triple A, the average electric vehicle's driving range decreases by
forty one percent when the temperature outside dips to twenty
degrees and when the car's heater or ac is on.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Well, you know, if you want to run the if
you want to run the heater in your car. You know,
if you want to drive a gas powered car where
you've been able to have a heater for like one
hundred years, that's a different thing. But now you can't
be running your heater in your electric car just because
it's cold outside.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
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