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> Stuck in traffic. If you are stuck in grid lock, that will cut in range, there have been cases were gridlock could last hours. This is just abjectly wrong. T
by vmladenov 3y ago
> Stuck in traffic. If you are stuck in grid lock, that will cut in range, there have been cases were gridlock could last hours.
This is just abjectly wrong. The absolutely best use case for an EV is during gridlock. You can run the heater on a (pre-heat pump) Model 3 for something like 2 days in 15F weather, and people have hypermiled it to 600 miles at 20-30mph.
In gridlock you’re not expending any energy to idle the engine, so there’s no “cut” in range besides from the climate system. Far, far better than idling a combustion engine.
- bryanlarsen 3y agoIf you're worried about heat turn the cabin heater off and just run the seat heaters. You can run those for a month on half a battery.