11 June

Another bit of anti-EV spin is that they lose range in extreme cold and heat. The spin often says this is due to battery performance. It’s actually because people use heating or cooling in the car. And EV manufacturers have shifted to using heat pumps in the cars for heating and cooling, to help address this. Also, most of the trips people make in their cars every day never go within cooee of the car’s maximum range, so it’s irrelevant to just about everybody. The average Australian for example drives 43km per day. And also most of the time temperatures we drive in are nowhere near these extremes of hot and cold.