effect of heating vs cooling on range

[RichMatt]

This is just a general curiosity question.
Which has the greater effect on range - cooling the car/battery pack in Phoenix or heating the car/pack in Flagstaff?

 

[brkaus]

Cold temp hits harder.

 

[Barry]

Heating, by a lot.

 

[jerry33]

Heating. Although the effect can be mitigated by preheating with range mode off.

 

[green1]

Heating is worse, also because we live in an area that generally sits colder than we like. If you think about it, the hotest temperatures you tend to get are a lot closer to room temperature than the coldest temperatures we get, so we tend to heat more degrees at a time than we cool.

Of course this depends on where you live a little bit too...