-40 is pretty rare for most of us, but -20c (-4 f) is not too uncommon in many parts of the mid-west. My ICE car handled the polar vortex just fine. Although

-40 is pretty rare for most of us, but -20c (-4 f) is not too uncommon in many parts of the mid-west. My ICE car handled the polar vortex just fine. Although any marginal parts are vastly more likely to fail, I imagine a lot of batteries were replaced.