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by ninkendo 211 days ago
Because it doesn’t solve the problem, it merely works around it. Solving the problem would mean coming up with a battery chemistry that doesn’t suffer in the cold. Instead the answer is “just don’t have it get cold”.

It’s not to say a hack/workaround isn’t useful, and I would say that it’s perfectly acceptable to simply use a battery heater in the winter. But calling it “solved” confuses solutions and workarounds, and that’s an intellectually dishonest thing to do.

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From the perspective of the user, battery being cold does not matter. How it does not matter i dont care about, for user it is solved.

Now, we can go into the weeds as to what constitutes solved and we might agree or disagree.