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Date of upload: Jan 16, 2024 ^^
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Xmas day last year, I flew into Minneapolis after a week in Costa Rica. It was 9pm, 0⁰ and had been cold and snowing all week. I rode the shuttle to the park and stay hotel that my car was parked at. It was a 2010 VW CC with 275,000 miles and it had the full tank of gas I left it with. I swept off some snow and started it right up. I drove it to the lobby and loaded all my stuff while it warmed a bit. I then drove 300 miles home, no stops, and arrived with about 200 miles "range" left. You can't spend enough money to buy an EV that can do that.
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You should have tried that up here in Alberta this past week…we were running consistant -30C with night time to -40C. And!….the electricity grid operator was telling us not to charge electric cars because the system was in overload and dangerously close to rolling blackouts. (One morning I checked and the windchill temperature was -63F!) Sorry, never was in favour of electric cars and believe that hybrid is the way to go if you must change from a gas guzzler. Of course, IC vehicles are starting to get some pretty good mileage in recent years. People just never clued in on how much energy is packed into a tank of gasoline. Oh...and tires? I use Cross Climate II for a summer and shoulder season tire; nothing but X-Ice for a winter tire. There IS a big difference in the amount of traction you get.
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This is another reason to keep driving my reliable 2002 Lincoln Town Car that has been my daily driver since 2007. It is 22 years old with 124k miles on it, and it hasn't lost any "range." When it was new it had a rating of 23 mpg on the highway. In December, I drove it 815 miles from Maryland to Florida, and got 23.7 mpg.
When I left Maryland, it was 22 degrees F, and I had to let the car warm up for about five minutes as the windows were covered in ice and frost. When I got back into the car to leave, it was so warm inside the car that I immediately took off my hat and heavy coat. Granted, it wasn't as nearly as cold in Maryland as it was in Denver, but I noticed that after driving more than two hours in the Tesla, Tommy never took off his hat or coat. It must have still been chilly inside that car. My car doesn't lose any "range" when I turn the heat on.
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I live in Finland. We recently had a nice cold week of -30C or -22F everyday. My car is parked outside all day. Still get 600km+ out of my diesel car at a full tank in a blizzard while using studded tires, which have more drag than all season tires. Some cars like mine have a separate engine heater (Webasto) which helps to keep the battery from dying and it uses the diesel as fuel. Diesel is king in the cold north.
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Great vid. This just reinforces why I prefer my traditional hybrid vs an EV. I don't have to use 5% of my fuel to get the thing ready to refuel (preconditioning). I don't lose 3% of my fuel being parked overnight in cold weather (was that the battery warmers keeping them from freezing?). It also takes well under 5 minutes to load 12 gallons get approximately 450 to 500 miles of range. Let's see.....500 miles / (5 min / 60 min per hr) = 6000 miles / hour minimum 'recharge' rate. In extreme driving conditions like you had for this test, I can also have a 'range extender' aka gas can to eliminate any range anxiety. EV's are, IMO, fine as a 2nd car "around town", but for a person who can only afford 1 vehicle, they just aren't up to snuff yet.
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I drove from Dallas TX to Lubbock TX while the weather was 10 Degrees Fahrenheit. The range was TERRIBLE, I almost got stranded in the middle of rural Texas and when I made it to the supercharger there were THREE teslas getting towed to the supercharger because their range estimates weren't even close to actual. As for me the car estimated I'd make it to my destination with 30% battery(Model Y LR), I got there with 2 miles left....
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150 miles ain’t all that bad. These tests are nice, I love them. They’re actually telling me that I’m my normal day life of getting to work and back I will be fine in even the worst conditions. Let’s face it, ALOT of us go to work and back all week and it’s usually under 20 miles per day. These tests of emptying the battery road tripping are just that… Road trip situations. You’d stop to eat after 150 miles!
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My Honda Insight gets me 500 mile range, and I actually hit that per tank. Fill ups are comically quick as I have little a 10 gallon tank (I'm always done filling up before anyone else at the gas station). My car only cost me 21k used. Tires are much cheaper and last longer than EVs, as do brake pads, and cold while it affects my range, doesn't affect it THIS bad. I may go from 65mpg to 50-55mpg. Why would I want one of these things, again?
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@bruceklassen8261
3 months ago
Yuuuusssss real test Thank you 🙏
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