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How do you manage the climate control (warm & cool) inside your electric vehicle?

Asked by gondwanalon (22887points) March 27th, 2023

I suffer in silence (learned to keep my mouth shut) while riding as a passenger in my wife’s 2018 Toyota Prius Prime plug-in car. Always too cold in the winter and too hot in the summer. She’s all about saving energy by driving about 5 mph under the speed limit, braking very slowly (to “generate electricity”) and minuscule use of the car’s inside climate controls. She’s even slow to use the defrost. She brags about getting around 100 mpg.

When I’m in my 2017 Ford F-150 pickup I get about 19.5 mpg while enjoying powerful heater and AC.

How about you? Do you sacrifice comfort to save energy in your electric vehicle?

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