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This is such an oddly bad and unsupported article for ars it makes me, and the rest of the ars forum users wonder if "Robin Warner" was an AI or something: http

This is such an oddly bad and unsupported article for ars it makes me, and the rest of the ars forum users wonder if "Robin Warner" was an AI or something: https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/electric-vehicles-are-better-than-gas-powered-cars-in-winter%E2%80%94here%E2%80%99s-why.1497508/ https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/electric-vehicles-are-... . So bad they even put a disclaimer "promoted comment" up explaining he was a real person.

giobox 3y ago
Arstechnica hasn't been all that great for a long time now, largely since Conde Nast bought it over. In my opinion anyway its glory days are long behind it now. I dropped it from my reading list several years ago. This article is especially egregious. The era of writers like co-founder Jon Stokes on the site is long gone; his last contribution was in 2011, No more Siracusa articles since 2014, etc etc. > https://www.condenast.com/brands/ars-technica https://www.condenast.com/brands/ars-technica
- tuatoru 3y ago
  Yes, it's got so bad that I have canceled my sub and subscribed to Wired instead. That bad.
lbourdages 3y ago
I've been reading Ars for the better part of a decade now. Always a lurker, but I contemplated creating an account just to complain about how bad that article is. In Canada, EV owners experience a very real 30 to 50% drop in range in winter. You see Teslas driving around with the windows all frosted from the inside because they don't want to use the heaters. I'm very much pro EV, but it would be lying to pretend they don't have their flaws.
- lastyearman 3y ago
  Here's real world ranges of various EV's in just about any weather: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1V6ucyFGKWuSQzvI8lMzvvWJHrBS82echMVJH37kwgjE/edit?pli=1#gid=735351678 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1V6ucyFGKWuSQzvI8lMzv...
  - lbourdages 3y ago
    I assume the temps are celsius? Nothing under -25...

giobox 3y ago

Arstechnica hasn't been all that great for a long time now, largely since Conde Nast bought it over. In my opinion anyway its glory days are long behind it now. I dropped it from my reading list several years ago. This article is especially egregious. The era of writers like co-founder Jon Stokes on the site is long gone; his last contribution was in 2011, No more Siracusa articles since 2014, etc etc. > https://www.condenast.com/brands/ars-technica https://www.condenast.com/brands/ars-technica

tuatoru 3y ago
Yes, it's got so bad that I have canceled my sub and subscribed to Wired instead. That bad.

lbourdages 3y ago

I've been reading Ars for the better part of a decade now. Always a lurker, but I contemplated creating an account just to complain about how bad that article is. In Canada, EV owners experience a very real 30 to 50% drop in range in winter. You see Teslas driving around with the windows all frosted from the inside because they don't want to use the heaters. I'm very much pro EV, but it would be lying to pretend they don't have their flaws.

lastyearman 3y ago
Here's real world ranges of various EV's in just about any weather: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1V6ucyFGKWuSQzvI8lMzvvWJHrBS82echMVJH37kwgjE/edit?pli=1#gid=735351678 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1V6ucyFGKWuSQzvI8lMzv...
- lbourdages 3y ago
  I assume the temps are celsius? Nothing under -25...