Comment by ninkendo
3 months 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.
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.