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So do they have to have multiple bulbs to make enough output?
I've been reading a few high-power-LED flashlight reviews, and those reviewing flashlights with 700 Lumens (which are usually about $150-$300) often claim that they are as bright as a car headlight. However, it might be that these cover a smaller area than a car headlight, and I wouldn't know (yet) how many Lumens a car light would really need.
Does anyone know if TM has ever looked at LED's to replace their "underpowered" current stock headlamps?
Umm, does Osram have an LED headlight to sell?
Let's do the math:
A typical Halogen headlight bulb is 55W. Autoblog Green said in their original story that the LED system is 28W. So LED will save 82W for the pair.
An EV uses about 300Wh/mile in real world highway driving. Therefore, you'd have to be driving for 3.6 hours to save 1 mile's worth of energy with the LEDs over the halogens. Thus, to save 6 miles' worth of energy you'd have to drive for 22 hours between charges. Not even a Tesla can do that.
The case is even more extreme with Xenon HIDs. They are typically 35W per bulb or a saving of 42W for the pair between that and LED. So now you'd have to drive for over 7 hours to save 1 mile of energy or 43 hours for the claimed 6 miles' saving.
I allow for a mile hit on range when driving the Tesla at night. That's being generous.
...Over only that last 2-3 years, the efficiency of LEDs has increased to the point where LEDs use less than 25% the energy of halogen bulbs...
... a 28 watt LED ... compared to .... conventional 110 watt H7 halogen bulbs.
Yeah, I'm not denying that LED isn't better, but the 6 mile range thing is way off the mark. It's yet another FUD thing that can be seized upon by the range anxiety crowd if you look at it from the reverse angle.
To be honest I'm just sick of these tech sites parroting out company press releases which can easily be checked with two lines of junior school arithmetic.
Reminds me of a good book "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences".
Even before I owned a Tesla and had a reasonable idea how much energy it took to run an EV, I'm pretty sure I would have still thought that the energy to propel a car 6 miles would be equivalent to significantly more time lighting headlights.
Yeah, I'm not denying that LED isn't better, but the 6 mile range thing is way off the mark. It's yet another FUD thing that can be seized upon by the range anxiety crowd if you look at it from the reverse angle.