Getting more of a charge out of your battery electric vehicle in the winter

One expert says he expects to see improvements in electric vehicle batteries to address efficiency in cold weather. (Dale Molnar/CBC – image credit)

Battery electric vehicles don’t go as far on a charge in winter as they do in summer. The cold temperatures reduce efficiency by about 30 to 40 per cent, one expert says.

John Komar, the executive director of  Automotive Centre for Excellence at Ontario Tech University in Oshawa, also says it can take longer to charge the battery…

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