<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bbbbb5</author><text>&amp;gt;Wow. That would be &amp;quot;nearly every modern gas vehicle in north America&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;Seriously. Running a cold petrol engine under low load in freezing conditions only for heating i just simply a bad idea. Never understood how this is even remotely OK in the US. This is illegal in most of Europe. And for good reason.&lt;p&gt;My German BMW 7 series definitely had remote start (and an auxiliary heater too). Maybach GLS has an auxiliary heater.&lt;p&gt;These are hardly uncommon features in &lt;i&gt;vastly&lt;/i&gt; cheaper cars either. Various Webasto systems have been around for ages, often installed by OEMs.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jonux</author><text>Wow. That would be &amp;quot;nearly every modern gas vehicle in north America&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Seriously. Running a cold petrol engine under low load in freezing conditions only for heating i just simply a bad idea. Never understood how this is even remotely OK in the US. This is illegal in most of Europe. And for good reason.&lt;p&gt;If it is around Celcius -40 then you would never turn off the vehicle. And a bit over that - there is always the Russian option of having a large candle below the oil tray (bad english, but you get it... under the engine) for pre heating. The more mainstream option is plugged in electric heating of coolant water.&lt;p&gt;I remember from my days in the Swedish army that there was a pre heating scheme for the drivers where specific spots on trucks APC&amp;#x27;s and such should be heated by gas light.&lt;p&gt;Usually it is sufficient to start the engine, clean the windows from ice, and then get going. A short engine running time without load for letting oils and fluids melt is only sane. Actually heating the cabin is nothing but wasteful.</text></item><item><author>zackkitzmiller</author><text>Nearly every modern gas vehicle has remote start, and has for years. This isn&amp;#x27;t an EV feature.</text></item><item><author>Reason077</author><text>Plenty of people drive EVs in the arctic far north of Norway (Troms &amp;amp; Finnmark). Not quite as cold as Canada, maybe, but close.&lt;p&gt;Of course EVs will have less range in cold conditions, but they also have some advantages in the cold: pre-heating from an app so the car is warm when you set out, for example. They may be more reliable than petrol and diesel vehicles in extreme cold conditions, and no need for engine block heaters, etc.</text></item><item><author>barbariangrunge</author><text>As I’m sitting here reading this, it is -35 C after windchill. The reason we didn’t get an ev is because we are getting the sense that the companies that make them do not take Canadaian weather into account&lt;p&gt;It looks like some of those manufacturers only lose 3% of their range in weather like this, but that’s estimated. The verified numbers are far lower?</text></item><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>I find it strange that the charts only go down to 20°F, when for example at the moment I write this comment, it&amp;#x27;s -5°F (-21°C) in Bismarck, North Dakota.&lt;p&gt;And sub-zero Fahrenheit temperatures are pretty common in the winter across the Northeast, especially at night. &amp;quot;Normal&amp;quot; driving conditions extend way below just 20°F.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Winter &amp; Cold Weather EV Range Loss in 7,000 Cars</title><url>https://www.recurrentauto.com/research/winter-ev-range-loss</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mcspiff</author><text>In Canada, electric block heaters for the engine are fairly common as well: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Block_heater&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Block_heater&lt;/a&gt; . Similar concept to fire under the engine, but a bit more modern</text><parent_chain><item><author>jonux</author><text>Wow. That would be &amp;quot;nearly every modern gas vehicle in north America&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Seriously. Running a cold petrol engine under low load in freezing conditions only for heating i just simply a bad idea. Never understood how this is even remotely OK in the US. This is illegal in most of Europe. And for good reason.&lt;p&gt;If it is around Celcius -40 then you would never turn off the vehicle. And a bit over that - there is always the Russian option of having a large candle below the oil tray (bad english, but you get it... under the engine) for pre heating. The more mainstream option is plugged in electric heating of coolant water.&lt;p&gt;I remember from my days in the Swedish army that there was a pre heating scheme for the drivers where specific spots on trucks APC&amp;#x27;s and such should be heated by gas light.&lt;p&gt;Usually it is sufficient to start the engine, clean the windows from ice, and then get going. A short engine running time without load for letting oils and fluids melt is only sane. Actually heating the cabin is nothing but wasteful.</text></item><item><author>zackkitzmiller</author><text>Nearly every modern gas vehicle has remote start, and has for years. This isn&amp;#x27;t an EV feature.</text></item><item><author>Reason077</author><text>Plenty of people drive EVs in the arctic far north of Norway (Troms &amp;amp; Finnmark). Not quite as cold as Canada, maybe, but close.&lt;p&gt;Of course EVs will have less range in cold conditions, but they also have some advantages in the cold: pre-heating from an app so the car is warm when you set out, for example. They may be more reliable than petrol and diesel vehicles in extreme cold conditions, and no need for engine block heaters, etc.</text></item><item><author>barbariangrunge</author><text>As I’m sitting here reading this, it is -35 C after windchill. The reason we didn’t get an ev is because we are getting the sense that the companies that make them do not take Canadaian weather into account&lt;p&gt;It looks like some of those manufacturers only lose 3% of their range in weather like this, but that’s estimated. The verified numbers are far lower?</text></item><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>I find it strange that the charts only go down to 20°F, when for example at the moment I write this comment, it&amp;#x27;s -5°F (-21°C) in Bismarck, North Dakota.&lt;p&gt;And sub-zero Fahrenheit temperatures are pretty common in the winter across the Northeast, especially at night. &amp;quot;Normal&amp;quot; driving conditions extend way below just 20°F.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Winter &amp; Cold Weather EV Range Loss in 7,000 Cars</title><url>https://www.recurrentauto.com/research/winter-ev-range-loss</url></story>