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Originally Posted by WildCard600
This goes back to the conversation about not being able to leave a electric car out in low temperatures. Large battery packs are a liability if I can't park my car outside my own residence without irreparable damage to the power train just because it was cold.
Those problems might not exist in kalifornia, but they do exist in about half of the rest of the country.
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I think the batteries operate in the cold, but the range is affected, which may or may not be an issue. The average person drives 30 miles a day. I don’t know if this average is lower or higher in areas of extreme weather. The life of the batteries could be affected too, but I am not sure. Regardless, the batteries in the hydrogen cars will suffer the same degradation if that is the case. Range shouldn’t be greatly affected like it is for EVs because hydrogen in the main storage system for energy.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/cleante...-cold-36c/amp/
Question: currently the Honda Clarity, Hyundai Nexo and Toyota Mirai are $58k and have pretty poor performance. I don’t know what makes them so expensive if it isn’t the powertrain, but do you think that price-tag will go down much?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/cleante...-vehicles/amp/