gearchruncher
Well-Known Member
So it wastes 1 kWh per day. Big deal. That’s 10 cents where I live. Somethings I think people just need something to criticize.
Lots of people buy an EV because they want to reduce the overall energy usage of a vehicle over the lifespan of the vehicle.
I drop about 6 miles a day on my Model X, which is 2kWh a day. That's 700kWh a year, or the same as about 20 gallons of gasoline in energy, or driving the Model X 2,000 miles extra that year. Just to keep the car around. Over 10 years, it will have used 200 gallons of gas worth of energy, not moving at all. Meanwhile, a normal ICE car will have used less than 1% of this energy while turned off.
Every time a Tesla is built, it's like having a 75W light bulb made that will be on 24 hours a day for the next 15 years, or driving an extra 15% over the average annual mileage. As great as the energy efficiency of a Tesla is overall, this is clearly a place they could improve.