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Charging the Niro EV 2023 in the winter as fast as summer

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     We, Kia Niro EV owners, know that our car is not the slowest one for battery charging, but it's far from being the fastest. During summer, it's ok to wait like 45 minutes while we do a pause to eat something so we don't really waste time. But when we can't synchronize our pause with the car charging late at night on a Sunday and going back home, it's not fun to wait the charge in the car doing nothing useful.     Now that we're passing our first winter with our Niro EV, we're not confortable to plan road trips with the car because, uh... I can't plan without knowing how the car will react in the cold! For sure the consumption is worse and I plan to do a short trip to measure the consumption, but what about the charging time?     I don't have precise data about the charging time with the cold battery, but I saw that it's much slower that what I got during summer. Compare this post's charging curve that reaches up to 84kW during summer wi...