Electric Vehicles

The ultimate stress test for electric vehicles

March 12, 2025

CAA's EV Winter Test took 14 EVs to the limit, to the point of totally running out of battery power

Published by: Andrew McCredie 

CAA’s EV Winter Test took 14 EVs to the limit, to the point of totally running out of battery power

It doesn’t get simpler than this assignment: drive a 2025 Chevrolet Silverado EV until it runs out of battery power. Now, I’ve been driving and writing about electric vehicles for the past 15 years, and in all that time I have never hit ‘empty.’ The inconvenience alone was enough to put me off — unlike an internal combustion engine vehicle there’s no thumbing a ride to a gas station to fill up a gas can to revive the vehicle — so I jumped at the chance to take up the Canadian Automobile Association’s offer to take part in their first EV Winter Test.

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