Hi, I'm Denise and this is your Civic Minute. Can an electric car handle a Wisconsin
winter? Well, it depends on your life. Cold weather does cut range at freezing most
EVs keep about 80% of their rated miles. Below zero, plan on losing 30 to 40%. What most
people don't realize is that gas cars lose 15 to 25% of their range in cold weather
too. For a daily commuter driving 50 miles round trip and charging at home overnight,
the math works fine even in January. But for longer rural trips, the charging network
is a real question. It's growing fast, but coverage up north is still thin. Norway is colder
than Wisconsin and 90% of new cars sold there are electric. It works, but it took years
of building the right infrastructure. That's the question for Wisconsin. Not whether EVs
can handle winter, but how fast we build what they need. That's your Civic Minute. Find
more at civicmedia.us.
