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EV drivers struggle to keep batteries charged amid winter freeze

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This says I can't read the article because I'm in portugal .Why?

Some smaller news places like this one decided it’s easier to block Europe than comply with regulations from Europe.

> it’s easier to block Europe

Yeah, it's just sooo hard to not track people, like HN does. /s

the other end of GDPR

If the perceived cost of compliance is higher than the perceived value of the traffic, some sites will rationally decide to block the traffic.

If any business doesn't do or expect to do any business in Europe, there's no good reason to serve Europe and assume the risks and costs associated with GDPR on top of complying with regulations for your market.

I'd love to see any analysis on how GDPR has panned out in the years post adoption. I'd guess little or nothing has changed to the big advertising firms who all promote a logged in ecosystem but I would assume data brokerage with "third party cookies" has gone way down

in my experience (we've gotten down to about -15C this week) it's a non-issue. Even on a regular 120v outlet. Car is preconditioned, warm, and has a full tank (battery) when I hop in

What kind of vehicle is this? Larger batteries take more than overnight to charge on 120, don't they? My uncle charges his Model 3 Long Range on 120 and says it takes over 2 days.

2022 Model Y long range and 2021 Model S Plaid. I rarely drive 300+ miles in a day, so topping off the battery overnight is more than enough for my family's needs. Occasionally I'll start the day below 75% (my set point) but it's never been an issue. If we lived 100 miles farther from civilization, I'd install a level 2 charger.

Thanks for the context; this makes more sense.

The amount of energy removed from the battery is what needs to be restored. That is capped by the capacity of the battery, but is not necessarily (is very rarely) the capacity of battery, but rather related to the distance driven since the last charge.

It can work for daily use, as long as daily use isn't more than ~60 miles and the car is warm while charging (eg, garaged).

Charging on the street in subzero temperatures isn't likely to work with 120v.

This is my experience too. Would it be good to get more infrastructure? Yes, for the handful of people that the article mentions. But I also haven’t charged using a public charger for months.

Even now what I have is better for me. I wake up to a fully pre-heated, defrosted car with a full charge. Costs about 1/4 of the price per mile. I actually wait less than I did on my ICE - no petrol station visits and no waiting for it to defrost.

I would also direct people to read the thread of peoples experience of EV ownership in Calgary over the cold spell: https://www.reddit.com/r/Calgary/comments/194yg8x/how_are_yo...

> My partner’s gas car wouldn’t start last night so we took the EV. That’s how it’s going

You don’t see this angle reported in the news.

https://archive.ph/kjiUM

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