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Old 01-20-2024, 01:13 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.
So if you drive an EV to “help” the environment doesn’t it get offset by having to put air conditioning in your garage??
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