If you ever find yourself in a traffic jam, you would be well-equipped if you were in a car.
The traffic jam in Virginia lasted for 48 miles and 30 hours after the apocalyptic snowfall. The Washington Post opinion piece claimed that it would have been worse if all the cars had been electric.
The argument was that the drivers of the electric car could need a tow.
One YouTuber took matters into his own hands to refute the laughable claims. He set up his own experiment and found that the 2020 Model X and the 2021 Model Y did well when idling in the cold.
The conditions in the experiment done by DirtyTesla were similar to or worse than the Virginia jam. In Michigan, the temperatures were between 12 and 15 degrees, while in Virginia they were in the 20s.
During the traffic jam, the vehicles were never at risk of running out of juice.
Keeping toasty.
He found out how much energy it would take and how much it would cost to charge without solar panels.
The 2020 Model X went from 90 percent to 47 percent of its battery capacity, and the 2021 Model Y went from 91 percent to 58 percent, after the vlogger set the in-cabin temperature to 70 degrees.
The Model Y dropped an additional 10 percent after he turned the temperature down to 60 degrees.
The Model Y used 34.5kWh per hour and ended up costing less than $7 to heat the car for 18 hours.
This kind of experiment suggests that electric cars and their batteries are more resistant to cold than the skeptics think.
How long can a car keep you warm? The story is called "DirtyTesla" and it finds out.
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