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Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.

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Only 1% of EV Drivers Would Go Back to a Gas Car* (cleantechnica.com)

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[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Yes cold does affect range and needs to be taken into account. But I have a family member that drives a Hyundai Kona for a 1h highway commute in Quebec, drives it back and forth without charging there all through the harsh Québec winter, charging it at home with that sweet clean hydro electricity. Her colleague drives a Tesla. Sure seems EVs still work there.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wow! 1h in traffic! 😱

250km straight without a charging station, you need a car with a 500km range in the summer to reliably make it though with the heater set to the bare minimum so the windows don't become covered in ice.

I never said they don't work at all and my mother drives her 50km daily commute on electricity no problem, but we have places in our province that are just completely empty for distances you don't see in Europe because of the density.

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah no for sure if you're anywhere further north it gets real sparse and I get that for those situations it's probably not realistic, 250km no mans land definitely would require careful planning even in a recent EV in Canadian winter but also most the pop doesn't live there or face that issue, also most families have two vehicles or more so one of them can be electric fire exemple, perfect is the enemy of good. The other comment was talking about Europe so I responded on that since that's where I drive my EV.