Musk’s anti-climate rhetoric and actions are poison for the world’s largest electric car company Until recently many Tesla owners could excuse Elon Musk’s erratic, often bullying behaviour because Tesla was almost the only game in town when it came to EVs, and for all his faults Musk seemed to care about solving the climate crisis. But is any of that still true? Evidence shows that consumers in nearly all countries are increasingly put off by Musk’s behaviour, and it is affecting Tesla sales (Reuters 2024). But after Musk’s two hour conversation with Donald Trump in August, which included the “dumbest
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Are electric cars good in winter? Yes! But…
As I dug our Chevy Bolt out of a snowstorm this week I remembered the questions I had about winter performance before we bought an electric car. Our experience over two winters agrees with the research I did at the time: EV’s perform fantastically well in winter, at temperatures well below -30C in my experience (I don’t even know if there is a lower limit), but there are some things you should know. Will your electric car start in the winter? 100% yes, at temperatures when many of your neighbours’ internal combustion powered cars may be frozen blocks of metal
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