Also here's another thing about mecha and cold that bothers me

[yvannairie]

(Another Tumblr repost)

Seekers and other jet frames should have one of the highest tolerances for cold and icing, b/c icing is a problem they regularly have to deal with, at the altitudes and speeds they fly at. Like, they should probably have the highest tolerance for temperature variation, period, b/c of the kind of heat gradient acceleration generates.

Racer frames and two-wheelers with small-volume engines would have the absolute worst time in cold conditions, b/c without proper grip they’re too light to really get anywhere in ice and snow and also if it gets cold enough their engines will plain refuse to run properly, even if we assume Energon confers energy at lower temperatures than igniting fuel does. In general, grounders need much more prep for extreme conditions than fliers do, unless we’re talking about a grounder specifically designed to work in shitty cold-ass conditions like a snow-mobile or a treaded motor lorry.