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This Is What It's Like To Take A Tesla On A Winter Road Trip
This Is What It's Like To Take A Tesla On A Winter Road Trip-July 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:12:27

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There are plenty of criticisms that float around regarding electric cars, but two of the big ones are: can it road trip, and can it handle cold temperatures? In a recent video, Jason Fenske from Engineering Explained set out on a journey in his Tesla Model 3 to answer those pressing questions.

Fenske decided to hop in the car with his cat Bucket and take on the challenges of the winter weather in a 2500 mile journey, where temperatures were as cold as zero degrees Fahrenheit, or -18 Celsius. Basically, it’s a icy, snowy extravaganza, about as extreme as you can get without getting closer to the Arctic circle.

You can check out the full video below:

This video is the natural follow-up to a previous Engineering Explained video, where Fenske took his Tesla on a 2000 mile road trip in the summer to see how it would fare. There are, of course, unique challenges to heat when it comes to EVs, but today it’s all about that icy chill.

I won’t spoil the whole video for you, but I will lay out a few of the biggest things Fenske talks about, like:

Tesla’s charging optimization strategy, where it attempts to get you to your destination with the fewest number of stopsSuboptimal battery performance due to cold—and how that changes the journeyHow to optimize cabin temperature to ensure your powertrain will actually workHow to tackle broken superchargersProjected battery efficiency vs. cold weather battery efficiency

Cost of EV road trips compared to an ICE road trip

Basically, this covers just about all of the questions you could possibly have about taking an EV out for a long winter drive. It’s a great watch worthy of 23 of your minutes—especially since these are issues more and more people are going to be encountering as the world grows slowly more electrified.

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