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I can definitely say that old/USSR 2.7L gasoline engines for the military came with block heaters. But they were expected to start in -50C / -60F. Good luck get

• gambiting 2y ago
  There's plenty of Norwegians on YouTube testing EVs down to those kinds of temperatures and they work absolutely fine, with the caveat that they won't charge until the battery warms up. Discharging Lithium batteries at really low temperatures isn't an issue, charging them is(because it actively damages them) - but even then the threshold is -32C or around that, easily overcome even with a simple resistive heater.
  • lstodd 2y ago
    Norway is not "those kind of temperatures". They get a lot of snow, and maybe -5C and that is all because Gulfstream (the reason Murmansk does not freeze, and it's much farther into Arctic). Otherwise they get it easy. Now when you move just a bit off the sea, the continental climate kicks in, and you have weeks of -15 -- -20C. On discharging lithium chemistries at those temperatures or "easily overcame with resistive" let me say that: you just don't know what you are talking about.
• mschuster91 2y ago
  The question is, how many people are legitimately living in areas where this is an actual concern in their lives? Outside of Alaska, Canada and Russia barely any place on Earth that relevant amounts of people live in, such low temperatures are a once-in-a-lifetime event.
  • lstodd 2y ago
    The question is why you did not do your research before posting this insultingly dismissive missive.