I was talking to my buddy last week and he told me that Teslas and Model Y in particular are crappy in the snow even with winter tires. Curious what the experience of the owners is...
Ha-ha! The an EV battery is not your average Seats car battery. It’s HUGE for everything except driving. Heating will take some juice but not nearly as much as driving up Donner Summit. Defroster is puny anyway.You will use half the charge running the heaters and defroster in real winter.
Then you will still be passed by a Subaru trailing smoke.
well yes and now, RANGE is crap, handeling is good, handeling is also tire based, I've driven my model 3 performance at 120mph+ on snow, ESP system is probably amongst the best in class, you can even turn it off and have fun, same goes for Y, basicly same car.I was talking to my buddy last week and he told me that Teslas and Model Y in particular are crappy in the snow even with winter tires. Curious what the experience of the owners is...
I get that you are not an engineer.Ha-ha! The an EV battery is not your average Seats car battery. It’s HUGE for everything except driving. Heating will take some juice but not nearly as much as driving up Donner Summit. Defroster is puny anyway.
living in norway I can avg more than 50% on weekday driving on heat on, if I use sentr mode, it will use sevral kwh per day! just to power the heating for sentry cams as well!I get that you are not an engineer.
On a cold day an EV can use 30% of its charge on heating and ventilating systems.
Car and Driver test puts it at 17%, but that's on a resistive heater, before Tesla switched to a heat pump. @anders_nor, your M3P is likely still equipped with a resistibe heater.