My EV's battery was quite low. We fly away for the winter on Tuesday. I will leave my Hyundai Kona at around an 80% charge. This is the fifth winter I'm leaving the car for four or five of our coolest months. The car is parked in the unheated underground space of our condo building. The most I've ever seen the gauge drop was 2% during our extended absences. The car automatically keeps a small, normal-type, accessory car battery topped up from the large EV one. Power loss is negligible when the car is switched off.
Rather than rushing around at the last minute, I wanted to get it topped up because it was sitting at around 44%. The weather in New Westminster was -1C this morning. I thought it might take a while to put in approximately 30 kWh of DC power.
Yet, what a great morning to walk around Queen's Park! Our city's changing stations have become quite popular for quick charging. I sort of lucked out and didn't have to wait. In the nearly 40 minutes it took, I was able to see quite a lot of beautiful scenery.
The 'snow bank' was really just old surfacing from the municipal ice rink. With today's temperature in the single digits, it wasn't melting very quickly.