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People seem to forget that gas cars have a battery in them too and that fails in cold weather.
Lead-acid batteries aren't lithium ion? And the car starter battery isn't equivalent to that of an EV?
You might as well say that I have trouble starting my gas weed wacker, therefore cars are hard to start.
All chemical reactions slow down in cold weather, including lead-acid cells. In extreme cold, everything is going to have issues. At least EVs have internal heaters that let you warm them up.
Oh, yeah.
If your point is that ICE car batteries have problems in the cold, so cold batteries is a problem for everyone and worse for ICE cars, that's fair.
If your point is that ICE car batteries suck therefore EVs suck, that's not really valid logic.