Comment on Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout
Sparlock@lemmy.world 10 months agoBlock heaters are a thing for decades and no one worries about needing to keep the oil warm. Don’t see how warming a battery is any different.
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I don’t use a block heater. I don’t have a heated driveway. I don’t have heaters on my eaves. I don’t heat a bird bath. I don’t have exterior flood lights. If I can help it I don’t run heaters outside where I am not. I said in the OP I don’t like the thought of throwing electricity into the wind.
Sparlock@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If you don’t have a block heater you don’t live someplace cold, just chilly. Either way it’s no reason to not get an EV.
BombOmOm@lemmy.world 10 months ago
EVs charging in the cold will heat their battery. It’s a big power draw and it is quite reasonable to not want to waste money and energy like that.
Sparlock@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yea you can just pay to heat the air in a internal combustion engine where 60% of the energy goes to making heat instead.
What is even your point?
mortalic@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If you don’t live where you aren’t using a block heater, you don’t get cold enough to worry about ev usage. But also, plugging an ev in over night is generally how you’ll charge it. Unless you live in an apartment complex that can’t do that. So you’re not “throwing electricity into the wind”