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Current batteries maintain themselves warm with a heat pump to avoid that degradation. The drop is mainly the energy of activating that pump. If you have a Tesla, that’s the fridge-like noise you hear when you warm it up.

Diesel engines typically run (inefficiently) to warm themselves up and be efficient, but that is a larger energy cost, mainly because that process captures a fraction of the heat from the combustion.



Diesel engines have electric preheaters. Electric battery warmers have to use battery power...


Where does that electricity come from?

An inefficient Diesel engine driving the dynamo.




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