Benefit of leaving the truck plugged in when the weather is cold?

R.I.P. said:

Keep in mind that leaving your vehicle plugged in when it is very hot or very cold allows the truck to prevent stress on the battery. Whereas the unplugged vehicle will still keep the battery temperatures out of the danger area, when you get in to go it still may be pretty cold. We can begin the argument of how much stress it puts to use the battery cold, however most experts agree that it does stress a lithium battery to use it cold.

Conversely, most modern EVS will use a little bit more power to keep the battery in the "happy" zone when it is plugged in. The "happy" zone is the threshold where the stress is zero or negligible when the vehicle is used at that temperature.

For the longest and happiest battery life, most manufacturers will tell you to keep the vehicle plugged in, especially in extreme temperatures.

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