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Old 01-19-2024, 06:48 AM
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Originally Posted by asianthree View Post
Our car dealer strongly suggests AC garages, because heat in FL effects battery life. Even at purchase of something as inexpensive as our electric mower, we were warned not to leave batteries in the FL garage. Charge and store in climate control house.or battery life will be half. So not sure about EV auto in heat, only have experience in cold. So far our family have traded in before batteries were in need of replacement.

We are swapping kids EV for our 7 person suv for the summer will see how TV heat effects the EV batteries.
Makes total sense. In Texas, our batteries wore out fast but in Las Vegas, the heat just sucked them up through a sippy straw. Once, and the last time that happened was on a highway off ramp in 108 degrees in a gas car. Literally Uncool. Car went dead! It was old-2006 til 2019 RIP