China Just Invented the Battery That Will Kill Gas Cars
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Neither is mentioned in TFA. This is just PR fluff. Notably, the raw range of an EV is totally useless as a metric. We can already make an EV go arbitrarily far by stuffing it full of batteries, making it insanely heavy and expensive in the process
No idea what this means. What electric car has a range of 70 miles? Why would it change by over half due to adding weight that's tiny in comparison to the car itself? This does not pass the smell test.
Winter is more believable, cold weather does affect electric range and older EVs didn't have good (or any) thermal management on the battery. I would expect that a combination of fully loaded and cold weather to reduce range by 10-15% these days
He had to turn around and use another vehicle.
Without the luggage, range was normal in the same weather.