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Oddly enough this was never something I even questioned about EVs. There shouldn’t be any real difference in winter drivability just because of a different power source. Tires do most of the heavy lifting there. Cold weather does other things to EVs but the general drivability doesn’t degrade anymore than an ICE vehicle. The second half of the article goes into a lot more of the drawbacks of EVs and why they’re less of a drawback as time goes on.
I think most fears about EVs are about the reduced range in winter, especially when combined with fast travel:
And sure, this is probably the toughest scenario for EV range calculations.
Yeah that kind of stuff is covered in the second half. The first half and the title seem to allude that people just think EVs drive worse than their ICE counter parts somehow in cold weather.