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Do Electric Vehicles Fail at a Lower Rate Than Gas Cars In Extreme Cold?
In a country experiencing extreme cold — and where almost 1 in 4 cars are electric — a roadside assistance company says it's still gas-powered cars that are experiencing the vast majority of problems starting. Electrek argues that while extreme cold may affect chargers, "it mainly gets...
In a country experiencing extreme cold — and where almost 1 in 4 cars are electric — a roadside assistance company says it's still gas-powered cars that are experiencing the vast majority of problems starting. Viking says that only 13% of the cases were coming from electric vehicles ( via TV2 — translated from Norwegian)["13 percent of the cases with starting difficulties are electric cars, while the remaining 87 percent are fossil cars..."] Older gas-powered cars fail at a higher rate than the new ones and electric vehicles are obviously much more recent on average.
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