It's Too Hot For EVs To Work Right
jalopnik.com
The heat wave affecting much of the U.S. may be causing electric vehicles to lose nearly a third of their range.

Jalopnik / Go Media always is one for clickbait titles, but as per Rule#5, I’m not changing their clickbait title or adding my commentary to it.

The actual article is about how various EVs are down 30% in range due to this summer heatwave. Teslas included.

  • @adj16English
    2•1 year ago

    It’s worth noting that the article stated that 31% drop was the worst of the impacted EVs, and - because this is the realtesla community - that all of Tesla’s models were at the bottom of the list of range loss.

    However, any amount of range loss is a concern for an EV. ICE vehicles will also see an efficiency loss in the heat, but what does 10% (or even 30%) really matter when you have the option to fill up in a few minutes basically anywhere