Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Electric Lemon Aid

The American Spectator : Electric Lemon Aid
"One of the biggest functional/engineering obstacles to electric car viability is that batteries lose power in the cold — while gasoline doesn’t. 
If you leave your car parked in the garage with half a tank, it’ll still have a half-tank tomorrow morning.
And range isn’t affected greatly by weather.
An electric car’s range is.
The colder it is, the shorter your range will be.
Not just because batteries are less efficient in the cold, but also because in the cold, you’ll be using electricity for other things besides moving the car.
Things like the heater — which in an electric car is powered by electricity — and if it’s dark out, you’ll be burning headlights longer — which also means burning juice.
Which you have a finite amount of."

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