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My diesel van struggles to start when temperatures get around freezing. That's just a thing that happens to all vehicles. -23C (-10F) is pretty cold
Diesel will gel but my gas cars haven't really had problems down into -30s.
Also the battery that turns the starter motor gets drained. But I take your point, diesel is more susceptible than petrol / gas.
That's a thing that happens to all diesel vehicles. ICE engines don't need to be heated to start. It takes more power, but they will start in anything not too extreme. My 2012 civic starts just fine in -30c. Canadian btw.
My gas car never has issues, and your diesel wouldn't either if you plugged in the block heater. I'm a big fan of "tech" and like innovative and new stuff and all that, but I also think all electrics are a huge waste right now. Small inner city all electrics with like a 75 mile range is not bad, but the 200+ mile ones are just asking for problems. Batteries are too heavy, too big, and just don't last long enough. Needing a new $20,000 battery to make a 15 year old car work again is never a good idea. Here in the next 5 years (now that electrics are about to age out) people are really going to start seeing the issue.
I'm sticking to gas or hybrids for now. Cheaper to keep the older ones on the roads. Current lithium batts just aren't high enough on their cycle count.
This moron, again with the false claims. Hey! Stop being a clown!
I like how I take up enough head space in your mind that you always recognize my name and comments. I've never remembered yours and you aren't even an afterthought to me. Lol
I recognize you out of pity and contempt. At least one of us has a working memory, and perhaps that's why I tend to be living in reality 🤷
The 15 years to dead battery figure you mention is wildly out of proportion.
Everything points to current batteries degrading less than 5% over 10 years... So even at 15 or 20 years there would still be plenty of battery health left.
You know EVs have heaters too? Only like 10x more powerful.
I find it funny you didn't point out that if you can plug in a block heater, you can plug in the ev.
But yes, ev usually have better heaters, though they use the battery for that unless they're plugged into a large enough charger to offset that energy drain.