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First: It's a site dedicated to electric vehicle promotion. So it might be a tiny bit biased.
Second: Their criteria was for their claim was, "13 percent of the cases with starting difficulties are electric cars". Well, golly gosh gee, how surprising that an electric car would be easier to start in cold weather, since as long as you have any juice left in your battery, it's gonna go. You don't have problems like diesel fuel gelling, or oil turning into molasses. (If it gets cold enough, your battery might freeze solid, and then you have real problems.)
Finally: "[...] electric vehicles are involved in roughly 21% of all its cases so far in 2024" Given that Norway is roughly 25% electric vehicles--they don't give the exact percentage in the article--that's... Pretty much in line with overall percentages. It might even be high, given that EVs are more likely to be new than ICE vehicles.
If we're going to do cars--and I don't think that there's a reasonable alternative that can be brought to bear in a reasonable time--then I'm all for electric. But this isn't a great way to promote them.
Your second point is basically agreeing that electric cars are better at starting in the cold, where all you're doing is explaining why. Maybe I missed what your second point of disagreement was.
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.
Fair points. I heard somewhere (probably here) that they were working on sodium solid state batteries or something. I look forward to new developments.
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.
Funny you use this phrase, when the actual action of "turning over" isn't something electric vehicles can even do :D
Windows dont roll down either, phones dont ring, and that weird square for my save icon means nothing to me.
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I think your second point is the point of the article, as much hate as electric cars are getting from some hick mechanics - they have a shit load less moving parts and so will generally be more reliable
The problem--aside from the god-awful build quality of Tesla in particular--has usually been software. Too much shit being done by a single central system. Yes, they should be much simpler. But instead they've been made much more complex.
Oh god yeah idek if a cooperation could ever properly build a car in this day, bit the raw concept should be better (Tesla's don't even have lidar cause elon doesnt believe in it lmao)
That, and it's hard to record customers with LIDAR.