In cold weather, gas-powered cars outperform electric vehicles, whose driving range can plunge 20 to 50 percent because their batteries slow down as the temperature drops.
That’s the inconvenient truth one Kansas electric truck owner discovered while driving around to run errands.
Automotive YouTuber Tyler Hoover posted a video on Monday in which he revealed that he sold his 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning truck after owning it for six months because its “winter battery performance was a disaster.”
The car aficionado owned one-half of a Ford Lightning with a friend, who had alerted him to the range problems caused by cold weather.
Hoover researched online and was shocked to discover low temperatures can reduce an EV’s range by as much as 50 percent.
Range is the distance an electric car can travel on a single charge.
Hoover started his video at home, with his Ford Lightning display indicating it had been charged to 149 miles of range.
Saw that last night on YouTube. He finally ended up getting rid of it!
Overpriced and overhyped junk!