That's nearly impossible and definitely not worthwhile. Every module in the car has a BMS board that keeps the cells in balance to prolong the battery life by ensuring no cell is undercharged or overcharged. It does this by bleeding current through a resistor to drop voltage in cell groups that are higher than average. That's lost energy... you would need to track the current dump on each BMS board. What would the benefit of this be?
The objective of the car's "Consumption" meter should be to know... your consumption (ultimately, in $ or €)!
If any energy is lost due to balancing, internal resistance of the battery, AND that lost energy can be accounted for, then it SHOULD be included in the car's Consumption indicator.
Not doing so is simply ignoring actual energy consumption, out of the car's Consumption meter.
I'm not talking those ~10% CHARGING losses! Charging losses are banned from this topic! (not to create confusion)Parasitic losses, vampire drain and charging inefficiency are just part of the trade from ICE to EV. You save ~600wh/mi with the electric motor vs ICE, and pay ~30wh/mi in electrical losses... seems like a incredible deal to me. I never assumed the energy meter in the car was the energy used from the wall. How could it be? It was always my understanding that this was energy pulled from the battery. If I wanted to know how much it likely used overall I would just add ~10%....
Agreed! However, 99,999% of the owners will never know that, because their car’s consumption meter ignores those lossesYou're not filling the battery with electrons... you're storing energy chemically. Chemical reactions require energy. You don't get all of it back.