Electric cars streets ahead

Sir, – A simple way of answering the question of how adversely cold weather affects electric vehicles would be to point out electric cars are much more popular in Norway.

A more technical answer, about getting stuck, is that data from a fleet monitoring company in Canada (cold and snowy too) indicates a significant number of their Leaf drivers use less than 1kW for heating, even down to minus 10C.

It depends how prepared you are, I guess.

The current Leaf has a 40kWh battery, with a 60kWh option expected by the end of the year.

If an electric car and a fossil car both get stuck in the snow with the same range left, then the fossil car is in a far worse position.

As it happens, I didn’t venture out in this snow in our electric car.

I walked to the shops and found no milk.

I’m sure electric vehicles caused this. Gordon Pay. Eden Park, Cupar.