Also ease of repairs in rural areas. Bubba’s Auto down the road probably has enough duct tape, clamps and experience to get most ICE cars semi-functional if they’re not totaled. A friendly home owner may even loan you tools to work on an ICE car.
Nobody in Bumfuck, Nowhere is going to have the tools or technicians to try to repair an EV. It will likely be a long and expensive tow to somewhere that does.
> Because you got snowbound and ran the car every couple hours to get some heat out of it.
Complete tangent, but how do EVs handle low-traction surfaces? Seems like they might do better on average from the weight, but that’s a wild guess on my part.
It depends on the programming and what tires you have. Electric motors have an enormous amount of instant torque which is exactly what you don’t want in a low traction situation.
The real danger on highways is traction control. It can hide how slippery the road is and allows you to easily outrun your braking ability.
In the northern Midwest, you’ll see car after car in the ditch when it hasn’t snowed in a while.
Early Priuses (Prii? Whatever) were notoriously crap on dirt roads because the traction control was too aggressive about cutting torque when the wheels started slipping, like even imperceptibly. On loose surfaces, you've got to allow some slip or you're unlikely to get anywhere, especially if it's uphill.
As for people forgetting how to drive in the snow over the summer? That seems to be universal. Seen it in Ohio, Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Hampshire.
Nobody in Bumfuck, Nowhere is going to have the tools or technicians to try to repair an EV. It will likely be a long and expensive tow to somewhere that does.
> Because you got snowbound and ran the car every couple hours to get some heat out of it.
Complete tangent, but how do EVs handle low-traction surfaces? Seems like they might do better on average from the weight, but that’s a wild guess on my part.