Tuesday’s Energy Absurdity: It’s Chicago, It’s Winter, and – surprise! – EV Owners are Struggling
Man, nobody could have seen this one coming! Oh, wait: Actually, yes, yes, pretty much anyone with a brain could have seen this one coming. After all, this is Chicago in the winter we’re talking about here, all that lake-effect snow, the howling winds, the blue northers we now give names to in order to further hype climate alarmism.
This is a place only fit for penguins and polar bears from December through March each year, and trying to drive a car that runs on a lithium-ion battery in that kind of sub-zero weather and ice is a sure sign of impending bad luck and trouble. One of the worst-kept secrets in EV world, after all, is that the batteries lose a huge part of their range anytime the ambient air temperatures drop below freezing, and freezing is a heat wave in Chicago in the winter.
Fully’s prediction . By next summer EVs will be sold at 10% of the purchase price to High end Golf Courses to be used as High end Golf carts
But a golf car has easy exit in case the battery bursts into flames — with EV’s most door locks require a complicated manual extraction process which is much more dangerous. I won’t even ride in one until (if) they fix the emergency exit problem!!