I remember a girl visiting me in Alaska one time and she asked why we drove electric cars and trucks, due to the cord hanging out the front grill of almost every vehicle. We did plug in our vehicles during winter, but it wasn't to recharge a battery cell, but to keep the batteries and fluids warm, or we wouldn't be able to start them. Farther north, along the coast of the Arctic ocean, they leave their vehicles running 24/7 because if they turn them off, they won't start agai