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jsightyesterday at 5:40 PM1 replyview on HN

EVs and cold climates are a bit of a mixed bag. On the one hand, if you want to road trip with snowy 30 mph headwinds, the charging times will be meaningfully worse. Not impossible, but definitely noticeable.

On the other hand, the traction control is fantastic and they tend to have the best preconditioning features so that you never have to get into a cold car for your commute.

For a lot of people, that second paragraph is far more important than that first for at least one of the cars in their household inventory.


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gogusrlyesterday at 6:39 PM

They're also a lot more resilient at extreme temperatures. Your range will be crap, but you can count on it running in -30C or more without problems.