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Originally Posted by Hehe
If anything, the range is going to drop further because snows are stickier than regular tires.
One recommendation to optimize range in cold weather is try to keep it warm as in leaving the car indoor/covered as much as you possibly can. The constant heating the car up takes huge amount of energy. By keeping the car in a covered parking, even if it only brings a few degrees of difference, it saves tons of power heating the car up again.
Alternatively, try to make more efficient trips... so, try to not go a place, stop the car for a while, go another, leave the car for a while again. Because you are constantly leaving the car to cool and make it to warm up again. Instead, go to a single place where you can get many things done there.
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It will be interesting to see because my RE71R's are very soft in the summer and they were shorter diameter by a hair compared to the ECO tires and my range only dropped about 5%.
I suspect my range might improve with the snow tires as less friction (less contact patch) but the cold temps is really hurting the batteries efficiency.
I'm using the butt warmers and heated steering wheel so not a lot of energy is being used to heat the cabin.