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And still those silly Norwegians won’t stop buying them.
Norway on track to be first to go all-electric
For the readers from the US: Most of Norway is more up north than Anchorage.
The problem is that people were sold EVs that weren’t built to be used in cold climate. This is not a general EV problem like the title insinuates.
Doesn’t it work fine if you preheat the battery before you hit the road? Or is this article just concentrating on the old EVs that have no battery heating/cooling systems?
Or is this article just concentrating on the old EVs that have no battery heating/cooling systems?
That. Because those are the EVs that were rolled out in developing countries without proper foresight or supporting infrastructure.
I expect it'll work out in the long run, but such a waste.
Global warming to the rescue!
Well, its basically why range is still an issue. Winter range, not summer range. Buuuut it's still planable, so it's not much of an issue. As the Nordics show. Oslo, Stockholm and Helsinki are all as far north as anchorage. Doesn't stop the Norwegians from going almost all electric. 95%+ of all new cars are fully electric in Norway and pure ICE is at about 33% in Sweden. Personally I prefer electric in the cold.
This is a real challenge for any EV, including those with heat pump functionality: the world is heating up and according to which fluid is used in the compressor, you have better cooling or heating efficiency (for who may not know: a heat pump is not a separate component, it is the refrigerant circuit used “in reverse” to take heat from low T sources and put it either in the battery or in the cabin).
Climate warming brings manufactures to focus on cooling performance. Most European manufacturers focus more than others on heating efficiency and regulations uncertainty (current refrigerant is to be banned in EU soon) makes this topic complex for the industry.
@stabby_cicada That's one reason we're looking forward to sodium ion batteries, instead of lithium ion like the current ones: much better in cold weather.
One nice thing about my plugin hybrid, I can always use gas but mostly I do not.