I think I agree with you. The author mentions AWD in snow as a minor passing thing in a way you can tell they haven’t lived somewhere with it.
But that said I haven’t driven an EV and I’d be worried about the extra direct torque they can provide making starting on ice or snowpack more difficult and dangerous.
Depends where you live with lots of snow. If you’re not emergency personnel and you live in a major metropolitan area with good salting and plowing? You absolutely do not need AWD. If you’re like in the GTA or the Chicago sprawl you’ll be fine - make sure to pick up your groceries the day before the blizzard. Any day where the roads are bad-enough to need an all-terrain vehicle, everything will be closed anyways. The only urban places I’d be tempted by AWD would be the Prairies Provinces, where they sometimes get snow below -10C (usually it’s bone dry here in Ontario when it gets below -10C) and salt can’t melt that so they just dump in some grit and hope. At least it’s pretty flat there.
However, if you live rural? Absolutely. My in-laws live in a hilly rural area and I’ve tried visiting them in an FWD minivan in the winter. Do not recommend.
I think I agree with you. The author mentions AWD in snow as a minor passing thing in a way you can tell they haven’t lived somewhere with it.
But that said I haven’t driven an EV and I’d be worried about the extra direct torque they can provide making starting on ice or snowpack more difficult and dangerous.
Depends where you live with lots of snow. If you’re not emergency personnel and you live in a major metropolitan area with good salting and plowing? You absolutely do not need AWD. If you’re like in the GTA or the Chicago sprawl you’ll be fine - make sure to pick up your groceries the day before the blizzard. Any day where the roads are bad-enough to need an all-terrain vehicle, everything will be closed anyways. The only urban places I’d be tempted by AWD would be the Prairies Provinces, where they sometimes get snow below -10C (usually it’s bone dry here in Ontario when it gets below -10C) and salt can’t melt that so they just dump in some grit and hope. At least it’s pretty flat there.
However, if you live rural? Absolutely. My in-laws live in a hilly rural area and I’ve tried visiting them in an FWD minivan in the winter. Do not recommend.