[Unassuaged]

What percentage of all cars in the US operate where it gets below -55? 1%? 5?

[Unassuaged]

I would love a cold weather super car, with someone else doing all the R&D!

[willgolfforfood]

I don't know. But I'm an electrical engineer, and a battery guy. At a mere 15 Deg. F ABOVE zero, batteries have well less than 1/2 their charge, as compared to mid-70's degree F.

That's MOST of the nation, on a typical brisk winter day. If you're going to work early, in the dark, your batteries are going to have to run your wipers, lights, all electronics and diagnostics, turn your electrically driven wheels, run the heater, the defrosters, and probably a few things I'm not thinking of.

To greatly simpify the argument...if you can't see your office from your house, you're in a spot of trouble, on a cold winter morning.

It's not much different in Texas or Arizona in the summer either, if you want your car's AC to be running flat out for you, on the way to or from home.