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Originally Posted by pwd72s
People stuck in cars for over 11 hours?
With an electric? Probably nothing to do but a tow truck to a charging station..
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So, in all seriousness - it's an interesting comment - if one ignores the 11 hour heater requirement (obviously not something you want to ignore when stuck in a snow storm but humor me for the thought exercise), does an EV that is not moving consume a lot ?
From my experience being stuck in traffic in my ex-E-golf (damn I miss that car), a stationary electric car was very economical on power (can't say I can measure vs an idling gas car though). The few times I got stuck (on 101) and crawled home 2 hours late (on a 40 min commute), my battery reserve was +/- identical to what it would have been had I sped home as usual. Not worse. Possibly better. Despite 2 extra hours of radio, headlights, and heat or A/C maybe - can't recall. I guess driving fast draws more juice than crawling with some accessories on, and overall the EV seems to not be too affected vs running an ICE engine to power those accessories..
So all I'm saying is I'm not sure the EV folks were worse off, as long as they were charged. If not charged then yeah, screwed for other reasons (no power, charging stations buried under snow).. Does anyone know the consumption of a gas powered car at idle with headlights and heater on ?