At 320Wh/mile. 1MW would be about 8.65 miles loss a day, which was pretty common before sleep mode.
Remember, the vampire loss it there even when plugged in, you just don't see it as lost range, since they are replenished from shore power. But it's still wasted electricity.
To put that in perspective, my entire house (not counting the Volt) used less than 7MW last year.
Indeed. At 2.5-3 kw/day 4.5 losses total roughly 1 MW/year. Looking at my trip meter, the idle consumption accounts for ~15% of the total power used in my first year of ownership. For those that don't drive as many miles, that percentage could be 20-30%. I'd say that's significant and it's a big reason why I have been advocating for sleep mode.
I've been wondering if the app itself might be a factor for those not seeing sleep mode...could the app be frequently pinging the car preventing sleep?
That's an interesting theory. I wonder if you force kill the app upon exit if it would prevent the app from running in the background.