1. The EV always starts. If it's below -20, our gasoline car may not.
2. The battery is always charged in the morning. OTOH the gasoline car is only filled sporadically. In the winter I try and ensure there's at least half a tank for safety reasons, but sometimes it does get as low as a quarter tank. Even with cold loss, an EV with a full battery has far more range than a gasoline car with a quarter tank.
3. The EV can be preheated in the garage without killing people.
4. An EV battery has enough capacity to run the seat warmers for a month, keeping people alive in an emergency. A gasoline car can only idle for about 24 hours.
5. That's if you keep your exhaust clear. I know people who didn't, and died.
6. A EV that's plugged in, but not inside can be kept warm.
7. Our EV handles a lot better on snow and ice than the gasoline car. Perhaps it's because of weight, perhaps it's because it can do traction control with the motor rather than using the brakes.
When I was planning a trip to Tahoe, during inclement weather, I figured my new RAV4 Prime (a hybrid) would be perfect. I'd drive the whole way on gas and keep the battery fully charged; if I got stuck on Donner Pass, I think the battery can keep the main compartment at a reasonable temperature all night without running the ICE. Fortunately that never came up but it was an interesting thought at a time when folks were getting stuck on Donner for 10+ hours.
About point 4) well... My car suck 20A@400V to run the heating, definitively can't last even few days.
About 6) all BEVs I know do not offer real "keep the battery heated as long as it's cold enough" function, some decide randomly to try heating the battery, but not much is left in users hands. One of the many things those who design ALL modern software do have to learn and refuse: user control first, automation only at a subsequent level...
About 7) well, no. Electric motors spin brutally, witch MIGHT be useful under certain conditions but it's also useful to lose grip in many others, and it's also an issue when parking in tight places...
6) Yah, it's pretty magical, which can be annoying all right. It's the "I want to leave at time X" function on ours.
7) Interesting; not my experience. I'm comparing a Tesla & a Mazda. Top spec winter tires on both. 510 N-m of torque so it'll easily spin if you push too hard on the accelerator, but I find it responds much better to the standard winter driving technique of not too much accelerator...
6) some example: I have an EVC300400300 witch offer also a bad integration with my p.v. (bad, because badly designed by Victron), I do not count how many times my car refuse to charge or by EVC refuse to allow charge because of crappy communications between the two and ZERO control on my side. I have HA who handle as much as I can in the actual crappy state of crapIoT but nothing I can do with anything not made to be integrated. Cars actually are one not made to be integrated, even if they offer also V2L, crapplications for remote control and so on. The are just designed as a rolling data collection device, controlled by the OEM not the formal owner. To came back on topic I simply can't makes my car heat the battery when I want it heated to use it in the early morning, there is no way to do so. The car decide autonomously when to heat and the EVC decide autonomously if allow it or not, so the resulting behavior is NOT MUCH BASED ON ACTUAL TEMP but on random interaction behavior between two badly designed devices. That's is.
7) it's not a matter of mere horsepower or torque, with a mechanic gearbox I can dose the torque, with an EV I can not. It's the same when parking in tight places, arriving slowly to nearly kiss another vehicle bumper is easy with a mechanic gearbox, next to impossible with an electric motor. At least not if I can't both accelerate and break a little bit in absence of something better.
7. The torque an EV puts out is infinitely controllable. Give DC current to an AC motor and you get 0 torque. Give it full current with the appropriate waveforms and I get enough to spin the tires on dry pavement. And anything in between, fully controlled by the accelerator pedal.
Never once have I had to rock the EV back and forth to get it uphill out of my driveway when there's snow on top of ice, I just feather the accelerator. I have to do it quite regularly on my Mazda.
About torque: no doubt that an electric motor can dose, actually the car pedal sensitivity do not allow the same, specially on slippery or steep roads, at least that's my experience with my modest MG ZS and few others EVs I've tried. Of course, someone might add a "parking mode" to help, but who have done that so far?
My expectation was also that switching to electric cars would involve some sacrifice but for my use cases it has been net more convenient.
For daily commuting I plug in at the office garage where they have dozens of L1 and about twenty L2 chargers. This has been more convenient than remembering to stop at a gas pump a couple times a month.
I initially kept a gasolene car for long trips because I assumed it would be inconvenient to schedule a ~30m stop every ~4 hours or so. In practice it turns out I need to stop about that frequently for family members to stretch, use the restroom, and grab a bite, etc. The major difference has been that it constrains where we stop rather than when we stop.
However, if you are regularly doing 5+ hour trips in rural or remote areas, then a gasolene or diesel vehicle is a more convenient choice. As they build out a more comprehensive charging infrastructure the difference may lessen.
I cannot speak to reliability as we've only had them for a year now.
For my everyday driving, you know, home->work->home, home->store->home, and the like, I NEVER have to think about range or recharging. For me, it is a much better experience than a gas car could provide. I pre-heat my car in the garage, have charging on auto, get in the car, and go. I never even have to scrape ice off the windshield when it's left outside because I'll turn on the heater 20 minutes before I plan on going.
As for reliability... Tesla's aren't well-known for reliability, but I'm still driving my 2014 car; it got a handful of warranty issues fixed, and since it's been out of warranty, I've only had to replace the 12v battery. This car is far less maintenance than any I've previously owned.