Every winter brings a fresh wave of stories about electric vehicles stranded in cold weather, batteries drained to nothing, owners left shivering. The coverage follows a predictable pattern: anecdote, alarm, and the implicit suggestion that EVs aren’t ready for real-world conditions. But the real world tells you a different story, one where the constraints are real but widely misattributed, and where the solutions have been quietly arriving for years.
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