It’s 100 degrees out, what’s happening to your EV’s battery?

Sitting in extreme heat—or, even worse, charging in extreme heat—can age your battery faster than normal.

Anyone who has left their cell phone in the sun on a hot day has experienced how heat can affect batteries: your phone itself may get extremely hot, or even just shut itself down. Cell phones use lithium-ion batteries, which don’t fare well in high temps. And there’s another device with lithium-ion batteries that may be affected by extreme temperatures: your EV.

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