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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh yes, so reliable. Look how much range all these cars lose in the winter:

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Mach E loses like 15% of it's range in the winter after driving only 88 miles for a a battery with about 200+ miles of range.  My parents live 110 miles away. That means if I had a Mach E, I'd lose about 10-20% of range going one way in the winter to see them and may barely make it there if you hit a snarl of traffic.  I'd have to charge it 2-3x for hours on end in the winter if I wanted to go visit the rents, assuming I could even find a charger on the way they wasn't even broken and wouldn't require significant detours.  I know for a fact though that there are multiple Tesla charging stations evrywhere along the same way that would make the trip not troublesome like it would be in a Mach E or some other brand.  This isn't also considering the fact that most manufacturers say you shouldn't charge to 100% in order to prolong battery life.

EVs other than Teslas are not viable because there is no viable charging infrastructure, they lose tons of range in the winter, and it is harder to plan longer distance trips in large protons of the country. [/quote]

A lot of your objections to non-Tesla EVs seem to be based on faulty information.

Hitting a snarl of traffic doesn't really hit your range that much -- unlike in a gas car, electric cars don't use much power idling, and they get better mileage at low speeds/stop-and-go conditions than they do at highway speeds.

There's no problem whatsoever in charging to 100 percent occasionally (or even more than occasionally). They recommend not leaving your battery charged to 100 percent for long periods of time, but if you need the max range for a road trip, any EV will be fine charging to 100 percent the night before you go. Modern EVs, Teslas and non-Teslas alike, also have more total battery capacity than the advertised amount, so there's a built-in buffer below 100 percent even when you charge it to 100.[/quote]

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