{"id":395932,"date":"2019-02-12T07:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T06:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-cold-breeze-for-evs\/"},"modified":"2019-02-12T07:00:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T06:00:19","slug":"a-cold-breeze-for-evs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-cold-breeze-for-evs\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cold Breeze for EVs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Eric Peters<\/a><\/p>\n

Eric Peters Autos<\/a><\/p>\n

February 12, 2019<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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There\u2019s only so much lipstick you can put on a pig. Eventually, even Stevie Wonder can tell what it is \u2013 if only by feel.<\/p>\n

Well, some EV owners were feeling mighty cold last week.\u00a0Nervous<\/em>, too. About the effect of cold weather on their electric cars. Apparently, no one told them that using electrically powered accessories \u2013 like the\u00a0heater<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 draws power from the battery which propels the electric car.<\/p>\n

Resulting in it being propelled less far.<\/p>\n

Nor that batteries suffer a kind of erectile dysfunction in cold weather. They become flaccid, sooner.<\/p>\n

Less range, again.<\/p>\n