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Electric cars are retarded on so many levels. Where I live, it gets cold in the winter. With an internal combustion engine, the heat is free. It's there all the time, as much heat as you could possibly want or use. Gasoline engines generate massive amounts of waste heat, but in the winter, it's not wasted, it's used to heat the cabin and defrost the windows. Electric cars don't generate that kind of heat, and the heat they do generate is difficult to distribute through the vehicle. So a large portion of the storage power of the battery is used to heat the car in winter. And guess what? When a battery is frozen in sub-0 weather, it has only a fraction of its potential storage capacity.

If this electric pickup truck has a max. range of 300 miles (which, of course, is a complete joke -- It's probably closer to 240 miles), when towing a heavy trailer, it's range will drop to around 80 miles. That's the reality of electric vehicles.

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Yeah, that retarded on so many level, the heat isn't free, it cost you fuel. Plenty of it is still wasted in the winter.

A few things; if you have a garage, plug your car and set in a drive out timer. So while pugged in the car will heat up the cabin just before you leave and you won't have to use your batterie for that. Your winter mileage will be halved for short trips, so yeah, not great in the winter.

Not that far off with the towing: https://tfltruck.com/2020/01/electric-truck-towing-battery-weight-analysis/