A heat wave will cook an electric car battery, if you let it

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“The worst case really is a car that sits in an unconditioned garage in Phoenix all summer without being plugged in,” says Scott Case, co-founder and chief executive officer of Recurrent, a startup that generates battery health reports for EV customers and dealers. “That will cook the battery really quickly.” If the car is plugged in, it can use charging power to keep its battery cool.

As EV adoption progresses in tandem with rising temperatures, drivers all over the world will have to get familiar with best practices for maintaining battery life. In the United States in particular, some of the highest levels of EV adoption are in hot places. California, Florida, Texas, Arizona and Georgia are home to 56 per cent of the nation’s battery-powered cars, according to the Department of Energy. Fortunately, nurture can neutralize much of nature’s heat handicap.

Battery health is fast becoming the next critical metric in the EV market, spurring a rush to quantify it on a granular level. Stephanie Valdez Streaty, director of strategic planning at Cox Automotive Inc., says four out of five EV shoppers now consider battery longevity when buying, which is one reason her team is cooking up a proprietary score to measure it.Article content

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