Electric vehicles fail at a lower rate than gas cars in extreme cold
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Electric vehicles fail at a lower rate than gas-powered cars in the extreme cold, according to a road assistance service...
  • Pipoca@lemmy.worldEnglish
    174·
    8 months ago

    Lead-acid batteries aren’t lithium ion? And the car starter battery isn’t equivalent to that of an EV?

    You might as well say that I have trouble starting my gas weed wacker, therefore cars are hard to start.

    • bluewing@lemm.ee
      English
      21·
      8 months ago

      You can buy a lithium car battery these days. Expensive as all get out, but you can get one.

      • sizzler@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        You shouldn’t replace a different type of battery with another. The vehicle will be set up with a different charging profile and you’d need to change that as well.

        • Sethayy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          8 months ago

          And I’m not too certain what hardware is in cars but if its not setup to charge the li-ions just how they like, they tend to explode

          • 31337@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            3·
            8 months ago

            I’m guessing the batteries advertised as drop-in replacements have BMSs built in.

        • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          8 months ago

          Yeah, that’s a fantastic way to start a fire. Lithium really doesn’t like being treated like lead acid…

        • bluewing@lemm.ee
          English
          1·
          8 months ago

          I’ve been told there are addon charge controllers available for such situations. But as I said, it’s stupidly expensive.