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For sure. The ROI really isn’t there when it happens every couple of years. Like you said, they do call it off when it’s that cold. It’s not safe for kids that have to walk to the bus or school. The main thing is that electric is the same way, so it’s a moot point.
No, the larger point is that it’s a struggle to make diesel work at +20F if you don’t do the things to make it work, and yet these things can be made to work reliably at -50F. The obstacle isn’t the limitations of the technology, it’s whether or not the cost curve makes sense. Electric can be made to work cheaply, if it’s important to you that it work- just like it’s possible to make that diesel turn over at -50F
When I say electric is the same way, I mean that if it’s too cold to run the vehicle, it’s too cold to have school.
Ok, that’s fair. The point I wanted to make upthread was that these sorts of impossible things are regularly made to work when making it work is worthwhile. Most of the ‘but this is a limitation of the technology’ talk here (about how EVs can’t work in the cold, etc) is defeatist bullshit that ignores that really if you want it to work it can be made to work