Amid frigid temperatures, a Prince George, B.C., man decided to test his Tesla’s winter efficiency.
Mark Vejvoda made a 440-kilometre round trip from Prince George to McBride, B.C., and back to see how the –30 C temperatures affected his car’s battery.
“I get this question a lot from people, ‘Oh, how does it handle in the cold weather?'” said Vejvoda, who is vice-president of the Prince George Electric Vehicle Association.
“So I did a 220-kilometre one-way drive and the results actually were better than I thought.”
In 2023, Seattle-based firm Recurrent measured range loss in EVs at temperatures between –7 C and –1 C, and found 18 popular models
