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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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