Thought I would throw this out there for everyone that cares to read? Received this a couple of times from friends that are just as uninformed as the guy that wrote this email. I was laughing so hard I almost fell down. People actually believe this stuff because they have no idea of the energy consumption of a Tesla. They know it is powered by a battery, so they equate the battery consumption to be much like the 12V battery in their ICE car. It has very little power in it, so if you power things with your battery, it will be drained in short order. Anyway, here's the email. Feel free to laugh your arse off.
Your typical ICE car of 3.5 liter V-6 uses roughly 1/2 gallon per hour just idling not using either the heater or the A/C. So if we look at just keeping you cool for that three hour traffic jam, the average V-6 will use over 2 gallons of gas with the A/C running, more with a larger V-6 or V-8. During that same 3 hours in a Tesla, the car will consume about 6000 watt hours , or 6kW. The cost of 2 gallons of gas? Somewhere around $6-$8 where I live. The cost of 6kW is $0.60 in my area. How long before each car either uses a full tank of gas or all it's electrical power under these conditions? If we figure a 16 gallon tank, the ICE car (with the 3.5 liter V-6) will run out of gas in a little over 21 hours. The Tesla will run out of energy and shut down after 35 hours with the 70kW battery, 50 hours with the 100kW battery. If we look at winter conditions instead of summer and I had one of the newer cars with the heat pump, it would run out of power in about 135 hours instead of 50. The guy that wrote this drivel is obviously made of the same ilk as the conspiracy theorists out there and his claims are ludicrous, if not plaid. Pun intended.
Now to the reality of it all. A Tesla can hold (currently) between 70,000 to 100,000 watt hours of energy. A typical ICE car has a capacity of less then 500 watt hours. It takes my car (in the summer) roughly 260-280 watt hours to propel my car one mile. In the winter 300 if I use the seat heaters and not the car heater. If I use the car heater, about 330-340. It takes roughly 2000 watt hours to power either the A/C or heat the car for an hour, although my car utilizes resistive heating which, while 100% efficient, uses about 2000 watts an hour. The newer cars utilize a heat pump to create cabin heat and are about 300% efficient or more. So they only use about 735 watts per hour to heat the cabin. The LED headlights, tail lights and license plate lamps consume about 45 watts per hour. The car seat heaters use about 50 watts per seat/hour.
Your typical ICE car of 3.5 liter V-6 uses roughly 1/2 gallon per hour just idling not using either the heater or the A/C. So if we look at just keeping you cool for that three hour traffic jam, the average V-6 will use over 2 gallons of gas with the A/C running, more with a larger V-6 or V-8. During that same 3 hours in a Tesla, the car will consume about 6000 watt hours , or 6kW. The cost of 2 gallons of gas? Somewhere around $6-$8 where I live. The cost of 6kW is $0.60 in my area. How long before each car either uses a full tank of gas or all it's electrical power under these conditions? If we figure a 16 gallon tank, the ICE car (with the 3.5 liter V-6) will run out of gas in a little over 21 hours. The Tesla will run out of energy and shut down after 35 hours with the 70kW battery, 50 hours with the 100kW battery. If we look at winter conditions instead of summer and I had one of the newer cars with the heat pump, it would run out of power in about 135 hours instead of 50. The guy that wrote this drivel is obviously made of the same ilk as the conspiracy theorists out there and his claims are ludicrous, if not plaid. Pun intended.
