gearchruncher
Well-Known Member
No, but just pointing out a 50W load wouldn't drain the HV battery that fast.Are you counting the normal overhead for when the vehicle is awake/recharging the 12v battery? (Isn't that 150-200W?)
Let's say the car does have to do a 25% duty cycle at 150W overhead while charging, plus 50W all the time.
That's 88W continuous average. That's still 39 days.
The irony to all of this is if a heater makes the car wake up more often, cycle the Ohmmu more often, and use way more total electricity, all while wearing out the Ohmmu when the whole point was to make the car more reliable and efficent.
Note that a 50W continuous draw would cost you $5 a month in extra electricity and possibly additional CO2 emissions.