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Great. Tapping the 'climate start' button in your car's app on your phone not only will absolutely not 'make you late for work,' it will potentially get you to work quicker, *and* in a better mood, *and* more safely than driving an unheated car in -30 weather.

Because it's more pleasant to drive in a warm vehicle than a -30c vehicle? Especially when all it takes to accomplish this is three taps on your phone's screen?

The Dreamcast/PowerVR architecture was pretty awesome. But if there's one thing computing keeps teaching us, it's that in the end, brute force beats specalization. That said, we're about at the point for somebody to wire up eight SATA lanes in parallel, and make Super Parallel ATA or something. Then, in another twenty years, move back to serial when they realize that it's faster to blast eight bits down whatever new system there is, than to synchronize eight lanes. And so on.

Gasp, same as an EV! Hell, my EV 'heats up' faster than any ICE car I've ever driven, what with the heater being independent of having to warm up an entire engine block through inefficient combustion.

Perhaps, but it's not a battle that is solved by choosing an ICE car over an EV, so I'm not sure how it's relevant.

How are you 'delayed' by getting into a cold EV? Are you 'more' or 'less' delayed than climbing into a cold ICE car?

How is 'some people forget to tie their shoelaces' an argument against shoes?

I do. I also assume that everyone will remember to not swerve into oncoming traffic.

But, and here's the important part, *even if they don't remember to preheat their car, all that happens is that, at worst, their EV car then operates like an ICE car being started at -30, which is to say, takes a bit to warm up.*

Only faster than the ICE car will, and with less wear and tear.

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.

Ok, bud.

The best contrived example you could come up with is 'being invited to a wedding the next day?'

Shit, many of us are old enough to remember having to plug your ICE car in overnight so it would start in the morning.

EV is GREAT for ultra cold weather, because you can pre-heat without needing to worry about the engine.