Like a common reptile, traditional EVs (is that even something we can say yet?) are wildly influenced by the temperature. Too hot? Well that's no good battery life and range will suffer. Too cold? That's not good, either. So rather than have the navigation guide the car to large, hot rocks or cool, dark tunnels to regulate things, they've simply added a closed-circuit liquid temperature regulation system. Something most mammals should be familiar with.

The liquid-filled system consisting of a pump, some heat exchangers, a chiller and a heater, runs a thermally conductive liquid over the batteries at varying speeds and temperatures to keep them in peak condition. This means no overheating like we experienced with our Long Term Mini E.

Not that this system is exclusive, Chevy uses a similar system passing fluid over heavily-filled battery packs on the Chevy Volt and Nissan also utilizes a liquid cooling system on the Leaf.