A heater for lithium batteries may be a problem. The lithium chemistry is sensitive to thermal runaway when charging, so the dynamics of a heated system would make charging at cold night somewhat complicated. Also, the heater would have to be designed to have very even heating and heat distribution because if you overheated even one single cell in the battery, if that cell goes into runaway it could cause a fire.
So if you drive your EV home and plug it in, you may not be able to keep it heated at the same time. I suspect this would make designing home garages and integrating charging there complicated. I still think, bad idea for Wyoming owners.
In wind chill, it can be more complicated than just evaporative cooling of human skin. Other surfaces also can be cooled by wind. ANY wind will carry off higher-energy air molecules from a surface regardless of whether there can be water-based evaporative cooling. So if there is any wind at all, the temperature will go lower than if there were still air and no wind.
A heater for lithium batteries may be a problem. The lithium chemistry is sensitive to thermal runaway when charging, so the dynamics of a heated system would make charging at cold night somewhat complicated. Also, the heater would have to be designed to have very even heating and heat distribution because if you overheated even one single cell in the battery, if that cell goes into runaway it could cause a fire.
So if you drive your EV home and plug it in, you may not be able to keep it heated at the same time. I suspect this would make designing home garages and integrating charging there complicated. I still think, bad idea for Wyoming owners.
In wind chill, it can be more complicated than just evaporative cooling of human skin. Other surfaces also can be cooled by wind. ANY wind will carry off higher-energy air molcules from a surface regardless of whether there can be water-based evaporative cooling. So if there is any wind at all, the temperature will go lower than if there were still air and no wind.
A heater for lithium batteries may be a problem. The lithium chemistry is sensitive to thermal runaway when charging, so the dynamics of a heated system would make charging at cold night somewhat complicated. Also, the heater would have to be designed to have very even heating and heat distribution because if you overheated even one single cell in the battery, if that cell goes into runaway it could cause a fire.
So if you drive your EV home and plug it in, you may not be able to keep it heated at the same time. I suspect this would make designing home garages and integrating charging there complicated. I still think, bad idea for Wyoming owners.
A heater for lithium batteries may be a problem. The lithium chemistry is sensitive to thermal runaway when charging, so the dynamics of a heated system would make charging at cold night somewhat complicated. Also, the heater would have be designed to have very even heating and heat distribution because if you overheated even one single cell in the battery, if that cell goes into runaway it could cause a fire.
So if you drive your EV home and plug it in, you may not be able to keep it heated at the same time. I suspect this would make designing home garages and integrating charging there complicated. I still think, bad idea for Wyoming owners.
A heater for lithium batteries may be a problem. The lithium chemistry is sensitive to thermal runaway when charging, so the dynamics of a heated system would make charging at cold night somewhat complicated. So if you drive your EV home and plug it in, you may not be able to keep it heated at the same time. I suspect this would make designing home garages and integrating charging there complicated. I still think, bad idea for Wyoming owners.