Volvo to go all electric in 2019

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Originally Posted by mapuc

Throughout the years I have learned that batteries is depending on how the weather is. If it's cold the battery perform bad and very good at temp 20-25.

That is correct and has been major trouble with electrifying public transit buses here in Finland. Most of the year outdoor air temperatures are way below 20 degress Celsius, in January temperatures in Lapland dropped to -41 degrees Celsius for couple of days.

Solution? Provide good insulation and use small amount of electricity to keep batteries temperature at optimal level. That has reportedly worked with transit bus but I don't know what was required to achieve sucess nor how well it would work in private car.

I think they should work on creating better batteries before going all in on electric cars.

This statement begs for a question: When batteries would be sufficiently advanced to be used in cars then?