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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 un
by 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 agoNorway 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.