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Also, what proportion of the world lives in climates where it makes sense to optimize for -20C weather? Dismissing problems or desires that don't affect people

• Robotbeat 6y ago
  It’s dissmissible if the comparable solution (internal combustion engines) already have to use the exact same intervention (engine block heater). I grew up in Minnesota (and visit regularly). If anything it affects me MORE than most people, and I’ve been stranded with a non-starting internal combustion engine car in the cold winter many times which is how I know the existing internal combustion engines already don’t do well. It is not uncommon for parking lots (especially in the Northern parts) to be equipped with outlets for this precise reason (and people often leave their engines running while they go into the store on particularly cold nights so they won’t be stranded). Makes electrification there actually easier in some ways as there’s already widespread infrastructure for trickle charging. Concerns which are not that well-informed are, indeed, dismissible.
• dogma1138 6y ago
  If you drive an ICE car bought in say California to where it gets to -20c and park it outside it won’t start either since most likely the dealership didn’t include a block heater in your package.
  • drcoopster 6y ago
    Sure, maybe if the car is 40 years old. But every modern gas car (and all the diesels I've owned) will handle it just fine.
  • emkoemko 6y ago
    not true, i don't see anyone on my street plugging in and we get -30 or lower some days, though probably not good for the engine but yes they will start no problem.