No experience with a RWD EV, but my wife's last car before we went EV was a Chryslier 300 which was RWD. Honestly, with all the electronics now RWD isn't the exercise in futility in the snow that it used to be - the 300 was amazing in anything slippery, the traction control did an awesome job and the stability control made it all but basically impossible for it to swap ends even if you tried.
I would expect a modern EV to be every bit as good, if not better.
Interesting. I spent a good few months with a rented Charger V8 that shared a platform with the 300. Nearly got stuck once on a gently sloped driveway when I pulled over to make a call in a snowstorm. Most frustrating but was the TC would just cut drive when the tires spun, so as soon as they slipped, it would shut itself down. Ended up having to basically drive out sideways almost into a ditch to escape. No amount of gentle feathering would make it bite. Granted, everything about the Charger was a budget variation on the 300, so it's possible is had a much more basic TC system.
Also spent time in a rented 300C. One of the nicest Grand Tourers I've ever had. Munched miles in extreme comfort, and I've never used a CC system that was so good at just locking in a speed and keeping it there, regardless of hills or conditions. Was doing a lot of back-and-forth between Toronto and Ottawa at the time, and it was a perfect spot to make the drive. Wouldn't have wanted to maintain it, though...
Just a friendly reminder that AWD is a performance feature, not a safety one.
All depends on your circumstances. Where we lived in BC was up a sloped road, and when it snowed overnight, it didn't get plowed until the morning. In a FWD car, there were sections you needed to take a run at or you'd run out of grip, and in a pickup there was absolutely no way without 4x4. This is with modern snow tires. I could manage it in an Accord, but my wife had enough issues with her Civic that we ended up trading it in for a CR-V, or she was going to end up in the ditch.
Granted, what constitutes a hill in BC is on a different level to Ontario, but there's lots of stretches in and around the escarpment between Niagara and Collingwood where the slopes are much steeper than what I was contending with there.
In a reasonable shocking turn, one of the polestars (2 or 3) switched from fwd one year to rwd the next. Apparently a big improvement in driving dynamics.
I could see RWD being much cheaper and more reliable to produce, as combining drive and steering into the same wheelset is a pain in the arse. Not to mention torque steer, which could be brutal with how torquey some of the electric motors can be.
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