Hauling a fridge in cold temps…beware!

[REM]

Generally recommended to haul refrigerator/freezers upright.

yep! but most companies add that disclaimer because people will lay it flat then immediately plug it back in and run a ton of air bubbles through the compressor.

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[CyberGus]

Ok good luck

 

[Outdoors]

Ok good luck

Yeah. Because I bet ya worried about polar bear hunters in Austin that lost a fridge due to gross misrepresentation.

 

[SlegMD]

Horizontal works just fine . Never needed reciepts

 

[Outdoors]

Horizontal works just fine . Never needed reciepts

Added to the list to send the bill. Y'all are hell bent on doing stuff with stuff ya don't deal with. A doctor I hope not.

 

[SlegMD]

Added to the list to send the bill. Y'all are hell bent on doing stuff with stuff ya don't deal with. A doctor I hope not.

Moved many fridges over the years. No issues. Obviously, one should take precautions. I honestly find this topic of low importance, I’m just amused by your level vehemence and sullying this poor thread.

 

[JackCypher]

1. Why didn’t you lay the fridge down?
2. What do these stickers say?

Although a good idea for wind drag - laying down a fridge causes the freon and lubricating oil with it to pool, outside of the compressor.

You'd need to stand it up and wait several hours for the oil to seep back down to the compressor at the bottom of the fridge.

This is what old' timers have told me.

 

[JackCypher]

Adding here from California where we really don't have cold weather.

The range loss at even 50F is noticeable. Also, 1Kw of consumption for the cabin heater is baseline for additional cold weather battery drain.

IMO: EV's got off on the wrong foot with the '~300' range battery capacity. And newer EV with 400+ capacity are supporting that 300 is not ideal when on a cold day it actually becomes 250. Not to mention after 2 years your battery loses 5-10%.

 

[mhaze]

On a recent trip near zero degree temperatures I was losing up to 10% of arrival state of charge between stops. In good weather, you can essentially follow the trip guidance, when it says ready to go. In cold weather, I always go 10%+ over when it says you can leave, the trip meter doesn't seem to calculate for energy loss in very cold weather.

I had a Ford Lightning before this and it did the same thing in cold temps, was always underestimating energy usage. I wonder if there are any EVs that read the outside temperature and accurately scale back the energy usage on a trip?

Maybe the software guys could how their estimated range/% in blue/yellow/etc indicating cold/hot temps had been taken into account for the range indicated. Bad thing to be misleading!

I've found that if I subtract 15% from the range numbers, I'm fairly accurate. Just figured that was my driving style vs the driving style they set into their formula. Shouldn't have to do my own computing to get the actual, correct numbers though.

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