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It's easy to think that "up north" means the problems EVs sometimes have with Minnesota, or Ontario. Not necessarily. We recently had a customer from the Yukon

It's easy to think that "up north" means the problems EVs sometimes have with Minnesota, or Ontario. Not necessarily. We recently had a customer from the Yukon region in Canada. That customer is farther north of Saint Paul, Minnesota, than Saint Paul is north of Dallas, TX.

dylan604 3y ago
it's currently 13°F in Dallas right now, so not really sure the point of calling out specific cities. it's winter. it gets cold in winter. things have problems working correctly in that cold of winter. your example of someone that lives so far north that their coming hundreds of miles south still means they are further north than most people is proving what? nice story and all, but the point is a bit lost
- gjsman-1000 3y ago
  > people is proving what Convince them to buy an EV. In an area with January average lows of -30C, and historic cold snaps that have sometimes reached as low as -60C.
  - dylan604 3y ago
    I'm sorry, but one anecdotal story of an edge case is never a convincing argument to me whether pro or con something I'm looking into. It's essentially one of those "nice story, bro" situations that will be told over a pint, but not the thing that makes the decision.
- WkndTriathlete 3y ago
  > it's currently 13°F in Dallas right now, so not really sure the point of calling out specific cities. it's winter. it gets cold in winter. things have problems working correctly in that cold of winter. Only in Texas do things have trouble working correctly when it gets down to 13F. Auto-spec parts are rated for -40C to +105C. Generally in Minnesota the primary problem with (older) ICE vehicles where the battery is located toward the headlights instead of back toward the firewall is that a battery with low charge will have a cell or two freeze when it's kept outside on a -10F - 30F night facing into the northwest wind, then the engine doesn't start the following morning and the battery needs to be replaced. Very few vehicles have trouble in 13F weather, except maybe in Buffalo, NY when so much lake-effect snow falls that the vehicle can't even drive through it.
  - dylan604 3y ago
    > Only in Texas do things have trouble working correctly when it gets down to 13F. that's an absolute gem of a bullshit comment. congratulations. you made my day knowing that there are some morons roaming these parts.

dylan604 3y ago

it's currently 13°F in Dallas right now, so not really sure the point of calling out specific cities. it's winter. it gets cold in winter. things have problems working correctly in that cold of winter. your example of someone that lives so far north that their coming hundreds of miles south still means they are further north than most people is proving what? nice story and all, but the point is a bit lost

gjsman-1000 3y ago
> people is proving what Convince them to buy an EV. In an area with January average lows of -30C, and historic cold snaps that have sometimes reached as low as -60C.
- dylan604 3y ago
  I'm sorry, but one anecdotal story of an edge case is never a convincing argument to me whether pro or con something I'm looking into. It's essentially one of those "nice story, bro" situations that will be told over a pint, but not the thing that makes the decision.
WkndTriathlete 3y ago
> it's currently 13°F in Dallas right now, so not really sure the point of calling out specific cities. it's winter. it gets cold in winter. things have problems working correctly in that cold of winter. Only in Texas do things have trouble working correctly when it gets down to 13F. Auto-spec parts are rated for -40C to +105C. Generally in Minnesota the primary problem with (older) ICE vehicles where the battery is located toward the headlights instead of back toward the firewall is that a battery with low charge will have a cell or two freeze when it's kept outside on a -10F - 30F night facing into the northwest wind, then the engine doesn't start the following morning and the battery needs to be replaced. Very few vehicles have trouble in 13F weather, except maybe in Buffalo, NY when so much lake-effect snow falls that the vehicle can't even drive through it.
- dylan604 3y ago
  > Only in Texas do things have trouble working correctly when it gets down to 13F. that's an absolute gem of a bullshit comment. congratulations. you made my day knowing that there are some morons roaming these parts.