We see you in comments, chiming in upon every EV post about how meaningless they have been in the cold. Charles Lane from The Washington Post recently did the same, observant things like “A change of 10 degrees can sap 50% of a battery’s output” as well as speculating which a EV industry is “only a single well-publicized malfunction divided from mess.” Not so, says Tom Moloughney, and he should know. He’s outlaid a last 49,500 miles of his commuting life in an all-electric Mini E, an average of 2,500 miles per month. Now, this car is a antecedent and the fairly early example of the complicated electric car, definition it has no preconditioning tech to let you warm up a battery packs before you go. Despite that, Tom has logged every trip he’s done in a car and indicates he frequency sees more than a detriment of about 5 percent from the vehicle’s usual operation. More importantly, he’s done his approach by many the cold invert but removing stuck — or freezing to genocide.

Via Engadget