The article discusses the challenges and intricacies of winter testing electric vehicles (EVs), particularly in harsh environments like northern Sweden. It highlights the importance of fine-tuning features like traction and stability control. For Polestar, which has Scandinavian roots, the complexities include factors like battery performance in cold weather and the instantaneous torque of electric motors. The author reflects on the duality of EV sustainability messaging juxtaposed with the environmental impact of transporting journalists for such tests.
An opportunity to get somebody else's cars sideways as much as possible on ice and snow is a particularly enjoyable way to spend a day, if you like driving cars.
For EVs in particular, winter testing presents a more complex range of equations, as battery performance in cold weather doesn't respond as well as mechanical systems.
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