• @wildginger
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    65 months ago

    Because the problem with ev is that the battery drains charge faster in the cold, charges slower in the cold, and struggles to charge at all if its too cold.

    So if you have juice, starting is fine. But the cold problems for ev is that the cold is functionally drinking your gas for you, not that the engine cant turn over.

    • @[email protected]
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      15 months ago

      Fair points. I heard somewhere (probably here) that they were working on sodium solid state batteries or something. I look forward to new developments.

      • Traister101
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        5 months ago

        There’s been “new” battery technology in the works since we starting using lithium ion and nothing so far has come anywhere near close enough to replace it. Sodium just like all the other “exciting” failed ideas in the past decade isn’t gonna go anywhere either.

        Sodium batteries on the infrastructure level would work wonderfully but you’ll never see them in your phone or even a car. The energy density just is shit. There would need to be some unexpected advance in the technology to gain ~50% energy density just to meet lower end lithium ion.

        But really electric cars aren’t the future anyway what we need to invest in is public transportation. Electric busses, trains, trams, hell why not self driving scooters that’s way more practical than a whole ass car.

    • @[email protected]
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      -25 months ago

      not that the engine cant turn over.

      Funny you use this phrase, when the actual action of “turning over” isn’t something electric vehicles can even do :D

      • @wildginger
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        95 months ago

        Windows dont roll down either, phones dont ring, and that weird square for my save icon means nothing to me.

        Linguistic artifacts are weird