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- AJ
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I know that my car’s battery is 88kWh. So in theory it would take 88kWh to go from 0-100.
So my question is that I know that when plugged into a 120 wall it draws power and converts it on the car to 240 then delivers energy. my understanding is that draw isn’t taxing and is like a modern appliance.
Whar I’m getting at is that my buddy and I were in a long conversation about electric cars and him not believing the actual power draw that they have, and that they aren’t cost saving… his data is that when I was visiting for a week and had my car plugged in, he was billed 500kWh more than his average a month. According to my car logs it charged roughly 200 miles. I have an AWD extended drive so rounding up my max, that mean that I only drew 88kWh in my calculations and woulda had to charge 0-100 almost 6 times to hit that 500kWh UNLESS that 120 draw is super not efficient and not 1:1 to what is delivered to the car and then inverted.
so am I crazy? Is he? Am I figuring that out wrong? Any links and data sources that him and I can read to put this to rest would be super helpful.
So my question is that I know that when plugged into a 120 wall it draws power and converts it on the car to 240 then delivers energy. my understanding is that draw isn’t taxing and is like a modern appliance.
Whar I’m getting at is that my buddy and I were in a long conversation about electric cars and him not believing the actual power draw that they have, and that they aren’t cost saving… his data is that when I was visiting for a week and had my car plugged in, he was billed 500kWh more than his average a month. According to my car logs it charged roughly 200 miles. I have an AWD extended drive so rounding up my max, that mean that I only drew 88kWh in my calculations and woulda had to charge 0-100 almost 6 times to hit that 500kWh UNLESS that 120 draw is super not efficient and not 1:1 to what is delivered to the car and then inverted.
so am I crazy? Is he? Am I figuring that out wrong? Any links and data sources that him and I can read to put this to rest would be super helpful.
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