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[Cars] Norway on track to be first to go all-electric (www.bbc.com)

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"Norway is the world leader when it comes to the take up of electric cars, which last year accounted for nine out of 10 new vehicles sold in the country."

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[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

You're being ridiculously (and inaccurately) facetious. EVs refer to the entire car, not the battery alone. If anybody had claimed the batteries work just fine at cold temps (which nobody did), that'd be a different matter. EVs designed for cold climate work just fine in those climates.

We’re talking about the increased risk of them doing so in extreme heat

To begin with, that was not part of my original discussion, and I have little knowledge on that issue. However, since we're on that, can you show some sources that there's a significantly increased fire risk in summer, and how that compares to ICE vehicles? Based on the info I linked, they'd have to increase by several orders of magnitude to be doing worse than ICE vehicles.

But demanding we commit to only EV’s

Who demanded that? This conversation started when you claimed that EVs couldn't work in cold climates, and that's the only thing I'm really taking dispute with.