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On another forum, one of the posters, who lives in Maine, opined that a Model 3 could be "life threatening" because of limited range compared to an ICE vehicle. Further on, he asserted that, if trapped in a heavy snowstorm, an ICE driver could last days, idling the car to keep the cabin heating going, making sure to occasionally clear the tailpipe of snow, whereas a Model 3 would run out of battery after a few hours of cabin heating.
I think he is wrong if the ICE vehicle is a comparable medium sized luxury sedan.
Who has good data on the cabin heater load required to maintain a reasonable temperature with ambient temp of, say -20F? I've seen one post on Tesla Forum in which a guy heated a Model S from -21F to 70F, using 7.2 kWh to do it, but he had outside air selected and there was no measurement of energy consumed maintaining cabin temp.
I can find ICE fuel efficiency and fuel tank size data easily, but I wonder how long such a car can idle on a gallon of gasoline?
I think he is wrong if the ICE vehicle is a comparable medium sized luxury sedan.
Who has good data on the cabin heater load required to maintain a reasonable temperature with ambient temp of, say -20F? I've seen one post on Tesla Forum in which a guy heated a Model S from -21F to 70F, using 7.2 kWh to do it, but he had outside air selected and there was no measurement of energy consumed maintaining cabin temp.
I can find ICE fuel efficiency and fuel tank size data easily, but I wonder how long such a car can idle on a gallon of gasoline?