This is a step that gas-car owners don't really have to deal with, but it will save any EV owner from a lot of cold-weather charging headaches. In the dead of winter, preconditioning your batterymanually heating it up using the car's settingsprior to plugging in can mean much faster DC fast charging times. Since Li-ion batteries like to be relatively warm to rapidly charge or discharge, preconditioning the battery pack before charging gets your EV's battery ready for a speedy charging session.
Thanks to its General Motors-made underpinnings, the RVEX promises a driving range of up to 270 miles on a full charge, which is far from record-setting, but should be just enough for those who are always on the road. That range figure comes courtesy of a 172-kilowatt-hour battery pack, the largest available in the BrightDrop, which also comes paired with a dual-motor all-wheel drive setup that's good for 300 horsepower and 390 pound-feet of torque.
