In winter's chill, cold batteries mean trouble for plug-in cars
Monday, February 1, 2010 - 20:07
in Earth & Climate
Nobody worried about cold-weather performance of electric vehicle battery packs when it was warm outside, but now that Old Man Winter has descended, the problem is beginning to surface. When cars have a range of no more than 100 miles, the loss of 20 to 30 percent of that is a very big issue indeed.