“Electric cars do better in the cold,” say the Viking rescuers. Exhaust cars are overrepresented in the statistics on who needs help in the cold, Norwegian TV2 reports.
During the first eleven days of the year, the Norwegian roadside assistance company Viking had to pull out 17,400 times. The most common cases are exhaust cars that need help with starting problems and battery problems, especially during the coldest days, Norwegian TV2 reports.
Svein Setro, network manager at Viking, says that many people forget that the car’s starter battery may need a maintenance charge. It is especially important if you often drive short distances where the electricity consumption is greater than the generator’s charge. This eventually leads to the battery not being able to start the starter motor.
On Norwegian roads, 24 percent of cars are fully electric, yet electric cars only account for 13 percent of jump-start cases.
– Electric cars do better in the cold, says Svein Setrom at Viking to TV2.
He says that the most common reason for emergency calls from electric drivers is an empty main battery. Punctures are the second most common, followed by electrical faults with, among other things, user errors, system errors and the like.
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