Rivian Electric half ton winter testing. Interesting read.

Lynnmor wrote:
Winter testing should include a constant salt bath like the roads on New England. That salt brine will creep into most anything and must be considered especially with the high operating and charging voltages.

Right?

“Did my car die because it was too cold for the batteries or does the battery bank look like a science experiment with crystals?”

Lynnmor wrote:
Winter testing should include a constant salt bath like the roads on New England. That salt brine will creep into most anything and must be considered especially with the high operating and charging voltages.

Yah good point. I wonder if any of the EV manufacturers do that. We just went through a nasty winter with ours but with Covid we have been doing less miles. Still I’ve been spraying it down at the hand wash on above freezing days. More sand than salt here though.

Winter testing should include a constant salt bath like the roads on New England. That salt brine will creep into most anything and must be considered especially with the high operating and charging voltages.

Interesting, yes.
Lack of specifics on how much power is consumed keeping the batteries up is,well, not very forthcoming. Or it’s early enough in the testing phases and the results weren’t good enough to be published?

Article was interesting. TY for posting.