Dang. My timing is off again.

Of course you're doing your work properly, aren't you? (Obligatory joke.)

Hmm... I was looking for the obligatory joke about "This plane will never get built"...

Even better, imagine a really big flock of sparrows, with each sparrow grabbing one of the threads attached to the turbine blade! Trained sparrows. Don't forget they need to be trained to fly to the proper location.

African or European?

I don't know.

(Several people already beat me to the helicopter joke.)

Z^-1

Well, first of all, no, you're not running three thousand-watt block heaters off of one 120v/15a circuit.

Second, actually, you can get chargers like the Grizzl-E Duo that have multiple charging heads off of one circuit.

Third, 'fuel injection' doesn't heat up your oil. Nor does it defrost your windshield.

Yes, assuming that in this made-up scenario of yours, you're sleeping, fully clothed, on top of the blankets, with your work phone strapped to your ear, your go-bag handcuffed to your secondary hand, and your car keys strapped to your dominant hand.

Otherwise, you get the call, you use your car app to preheat your car (shit, mine ties into siri, so I can just tell it to preheat the car while I'm, you know, getting dressed, using the washroom, getting a coffee, whatever.

Ah, yes, good old fluffernutter, who for some reason hates EVs with a passion.

but what if your work calls and there's a problem and you have to leave sooner? EVs are sure going to suck for people who are on-call and may have to leave at any time.

Having been in this scenario, I can tell you exactly how it works when you have to jump in the car and go somewhere when it's -30c.

"Ok, I understand, I'll be in." *clicks hang-up button.* *opens car app.* *clicks 'climate start.'* *clicks 'winter.'*

Then, you get dressed, grab your stuff, walk outside, unplug the car, climb in to your warmed up, conditioned EV, and toot toot off.

This is as opposed to how this exact scenario worked when I drove an ICE car, which meant either a) going outside, starting the car, and letting it run cold, which is bad, or b) getting in, and driving it slow for the first ten minutes, shivering and trying to breathe as shallowly as possible to keep the inside of the windshield from frosting up.

Or you just jump in the EV and drive off, and it's still going to heat up faster, easier, and cleaner, *and* you're not damaging your engine by trying to push semi-solid oil around.

I've not tried charging mine in cold weather at a rapid charger, but I'm sure the charging controls will use some of the power to heat the battery, as otherwise it wouldn't be able to accept the charge.

A good EV, when you use the in-car nav to let the car know you're heading to a DC fast charger, will start warming up the batteries ahead of time. Some just have a 'condition the batteries for charging' button. Otherwise, yes, when you connect, the batteries will use the DC power to warm up, but this is obviously less efficient.

No, from those two comments you actually sound like someone stupid enough to vote against your own interests. Lots of that going around these years.

But perhaps you think if you keep contradicting yourself you'll eventually figure out what you mean?

Funnier than the only Funny-modded comment on the story. I sure thought there was lots of potential for Funny in this one, but...

NAK

But that wasn't.

He's good with cryptocurrency and he'll just buy a pardon if he's in today's America.