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> The nice thing about EV’s is you can have them warmup while plugged in an unheated parking space

Just like people have been doing with ICE cars for literally decades? This has been super common since at least the 80s and probably even earlier, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/Standhei...

It's called a block heater, it's normal for most parking spaces in cold countries to have sockets for these.

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That requires extra equipment or aftermarket upgrades. EV’s come out of the factory with everything already setup.

It might not seem like much, but not everyone is local.

Or a standard feature if you're living on the Canadian prairies.

In the mid 70's my uncle left Edmonton to do his doctorate in the Bay Area, and had his classmates at Berkeley convinced that his big Dodge Charger was electric because of the block heater cord on the front of it :-)

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