To be honest, the weather in the lower mainland of BC has nothing in common with what is normally called “Canadian Winter”. Overall, the article posted by Odie is informative and calls a spade, a spade. Yes, the range of an EV gets clobbered in very cold weather and yes the Chinese and Korean vehicles do well relative to the pack.
Agreed. Even alot of the Youtube cold weather testing at -20C and in urban environments where you are plugged in and can preheat... doesn't count IMO. The prairies can get down to -45C. You try running any EV from a pure cold start and that's atleast half the range gone. No modern EV does well in these conditions. All the preheating and battery conditioning tech that Tesla and others use are just bandaids to lithium ion's inherent flaws. Solid state batteries are probably a decade away, but those should do alot better.
Edmonton had bought some North American built EV buses and they failed horribly in the winter. Whereas Chinese EV buses run just fine in Khazakhstan. The old school notion that country of origin is a reflection of quality is no longer valid. Generally, I would imagine a bigger company like BYD would have better resources to be able to dedicate towards engineering, and they have the facilities to stress test their products.
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+1 I wouldn't underestimate the Chinese. My bet is they can build an EV as good as or better than their competition and sell it cheaper. If in the next few years they find their way into the US, Elon is going to have problems, much worse than the automakers making ICE vehicles and EVs.
Agree and also the less expensive Equinox EV to my wife and I in the 2025 model year was a sweet SUV. We sat in both, she choose the Gas Equinox over the EV though because after her coming from a Mazda 4 door sedan she wanted the more substantial SUV look and seating position of the Gas model.
Last year something like 1 in 5 EVs sold in Canada were GM. Pretty sure they are #1.
Yeah, I would say that would be the case considering how popular other foreign brands are in the US. It's not like I haven't owned non US made cars, but the majority of my cars have been domestic. Most probably don't think like me, but I'd just rather have a car that benefits US workers. I won't buy a lesser car just to get a US product, but all things the same I'd prefer to buy American. At this point there's a number of foreign manufacturers who do build cars in the US. If they start building some of them here then maybe I'd change my tune.
