Moved to a new house in southern New Hampshire this past March, about 40 minutes from the office in Nashua, five days a week. Round trip works out to almost exactly 34 miles most days, maybe a little more if I swing by the grocery store on the way home. The old house had a 240V outlet in the garage that a previous owner put in for a hot tub, close enough that I got an L2 charger hardwired to it years ago. This place just has a standard outlet, and the electrician I called back in April quoted me for a panel upgrade before he can even run a new circuit. Panel's on backorder until at least October, so I've been on 120V since I moved in.
I've had the Bolt EUV four years now, so this isn't new-EV panic, I know roughly what L1 does in mild weather. It's kept up fine since March. What I don't have real experience with is what a proper cold snap does to it, because the old house never made me find out. First hard freeze warning came through last week, upper teens overnight for three or four nights in a row, and I'd rather know what I'm walking into before it happens than find out at 6am already running late.
I plug in around 6:30pm most nights and unplug around 6:15am, so just under 12 hours most weeknights. Is that enough once it actually gets cold, or is 34 miles a day the kind of number that stops working once the temperature drops? Trying to figure out if I need to change something before this happens, not after.
