According to a new Swedish test, there is not much to discuss. The electric car is just better. Period!… at least in the cold.
When the snow at the beginning of the year closed the E45 around Aarhus to such an extent that motorists had to spend the night on the motorway, criticism rained down.
Both over the efforts of the authorities and actually also over the electric cars. For example, a Mette Hansen told TV2 that she was ‘ terribly scared ‘ when she was stuck in a 24-hour queue on the motorway in an electric car.
But now a test from Swedish Ny Teknik shows that electric cars are at least as good, if not better, than both petrol and diesel cars at keeping going under extreme conditions.
That’s what the Engineer writes.
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In the test, Ny Teknik simulated a cow by leaving a BYD Seal in a parking lot. And stand, and stand, and stand.
The Swedes left the car standing, even though the temperature dropped to somewhere between 15 and minus 17 degrees in the test.
Before the test started, the Swedes had intentionally only charged the car’s battery to 64 percent. It should, they say, leave the impression that you just take the car in the morning to go to work.
In the cabin, the air conditioning system was set to maintain a temperature of 23 degrees. Just as both the seat and steering wheel heating were switched on.
After two hours in ‘ko’, the battery had eaten 6 percent of the capacity. And after six hours there was 50 percent electricity left.
The Chinese Elert only gave up after 27 hours. Calculated, Ny Teknik believes that this results in a consumption of approximately one and a half kWh.
Ny Teknik carried out the test after a traffic jam on the Swedish E22 motorway between Hörby and Kristianstad in southern Sweden. Around 1,000 cars lined up here.
At the Danish interest organization FDM, people nod in recognition to the picture Ny Teknik paints. But you still wouldn’t recommend that Danes drive out into traffic in electric cars with a low energy level on the battery.
In other words, you should not do the same when the fuel gauge in a petrol/diesel car lights up red, that is, unless it is to find a petrol station immediately.
