Ever since getting an EV, I’ve noticed drivers to be a-holes! This guy in a huge truck spit in my direction for no reason!
All over social media people will key teslas, and talk crap. Has anyone else had weird experiences?
Ever since getting an EV, I’ve noticed drivers to be a-holes! This guy in a huge truck spit in my direction for no reason!
All over social media people will key teslas, and talk crap. Has anyone else had weird experiences?
Newer Teslas have more efficient heat pumps that use very little energy. I have a 2019 Model 3 that loses a lot of range in winter, but the loss in my 2021 Model Y is hardly noticable.
In Norway you can’t throw a rock anywhere without hitting a charger, though, so there is rarely a risk of running out of battery.
I’m jealous for your chargers. It’s not like I drive more than a few hundred miles in any give direction. East or West from where I am is fine. North or South on the other hand. There are a few chargers, but I would be driving 30 minutes out of my way to get to them. It’s massively inconvenient.
Heatpumps below 45F start to steeply decline in efficiency. Trying to warm my car up on a 20F day (which is how I start most days 4 months out of the year) saves me, at most 1.5kw an hour with a heat pump. That’s 6 miles an hour if the rest of the M3 is running perfectly. During 3 hours of driving, I would gain about 18 miles. Although not insignificant, it’s not some holy grail to EV range and not enough to make a noticeable difference.
I just really wish our charging infrastructure was better in the US. Give it another 5 years and I think we’ll be just fine.
20F is -6C, which would be a mild winter day where I’m from. And honestly, even with those temperatures and snow on the roads I don’t notice that much range loss in my 2021, compared to losing almost half in my 2019 without heat pump.
Tests in Norway show a range loss of around 6% in newer Teslas during winter.