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Originally Posted by freebeard
Explain just this part, pleez.
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Modern EVs maintain thermal regulation even when not in operation, and also periodically top off the 12v battery from the traction battery.
In some extremely cold environments, a significant amount of extra juice can go into just maintaining battery temperature while it sits. To a lesser extent in extremely hot environments, some energy is spent cooling it.
The only possible way an EV would be less efficient than an ICE is if both sat for like a year, not being driven, in environmentally extreme conditions.