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Had a question, and seen someone else with the same inquiry on reddit.
M3P . Cooler temps, the battery is not nearly as responsive/powerful until (i'm guessing) a certain battery temp is reached. About 50 degrees outside, started at 90% capacity, raced a CTSV at 80%, the CTSV pulled on me when normally the same car loses fairly bad. Car felt underpowered. Run the battery down to 60% the same day, and the car feels like it has more power than it did at 80%. (guessing the batteries had warmed up by then)
Is there any option to preheat the batteries before leaving the house? Don't really care about consuming electric at the house. Only thing I could think of would be to run the HVAC on high for a while with the windows down... but that's not remotely a good solution.
Second question: is there any way that we can monitor battery temps realtime?
Thanks
M3P . Cooler temps, the battery is not nearly as responsive/powerful until (i'm guessing) a certain battery temp is reached. About 50 degrees outside, started at 90% capacity, raced a CTSV at 80%, the CTSV pulled on me when normally the same car loses fairly bad. Car felt underpowered. Run the battery down to 60% the same day, and the car feels like it has more power than it did at 80%. (guessing the batteries had warmed up by then)
Is there any option to preheat the batteries before leaving the house? Don't really care about consuming electric at the house. Only thing I could think of would be to run the HVAC on high for a while with the windows down... but that's not remotely a good solution.
Second question: is there any way that we can monitor battery temps realtime?
Thanks