At 20 degrees F, electric vehicles just don’t go as far as they do at the ideal 70 degrees.
– Alaska’s rugged and frigid interior, where it can get as cold as minus 50 Fahrenheit , is not the place you’d expect to find an electric school bus.
So longer trips can be difficult in the coldest weather. Transit authorities like Chicago’s, which has pledged to convert its whole bus fleet to electricity by 2040, have to take extraordinary steps to keep electric buses charged and on schedule. Many owners of personal electric vehicles also are finding that long-distance wintertime travel can be hard. EVs can lose anywhere from 10% to 36% of their range as cold spells come at least a few times each winter in many U.S. states.
Around three-quarters of this EV range loss is due to keeping occupants warm, but speed and even freeway driving are factors. Some drivers go to great lengths not to use much heat so they can travel farther, wearing gloves or sitting on heated seats to save energy.The range loss has not slowed EV adoption in Norway, where nearly 80% of new vehicle sales were electric last year.
Recurrent, a U.S. company that measures battery life in used EVs, said it has run studies monitoring 7,000 vehicles remotely, and reached findings similar to the Norwegian test.
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