• Peppycito@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    I don’t use a block heater. I don’t have a heated driveway. I don’t have heaters on my eaves. I don’t heat a bird bath. I don’t have exterior flood lights. If I can help it I don’t run heaters outside where I am not. I said in the OP I don’t like the thought of throwing electricity into the wind.

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      11 months ago

      If you don’t live where you aren’t using a block heater, you don’t get cold enough to worry about ev usage. But also, plugging an ev in over night is generally how you’ll charge it. Unless you live in an apartment complex that can’t do that. So you’re not “throwing electricity into the wind”

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      11 months ago

      If you don’t have a block heater you don’t live someplace cold, just chilly. Either way it’s no reason to not get an EV.

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        11 months ago

        EVs charging in the cold will heat their battery. It’s a big power draw and it is quite reasonable to not want to waste money and energy like that.

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          11 months ago

          Yea you can just pay to heat the air in a internal combustion engine where 60% of the energy goes to making heat instead.

          What is even your point?

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            11 months ago

            But my ICE doesn’t consume energy when I’m not using it. I try to structure my life to drive as little as possible. My car sits more than it moves.

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              11 months ago

              Most new EV models allow you to set a “leave time” for when your car needs to be fully charged, with a warm battery and a pre-heated cabin. For example, Tesla owners have the ability to “precondition” their car, which entails setting a time via the Tesla app for their car to pre-heat.

              Many people pre-heat standard engine cars in the winter, setting an app isn’t really that much different and arguably more convenient.

              It’s a stupid argument to be so concerned over power being used when ICE are ridiculously wasteful. In a standard 50L tank 30 liters literally goes to doing nothing other than getting hot. If your EV is pulling 60% of the total energy bill to keep the battery warm you have other issues that need looking at.

              Just out of curiosity are you clutching your pearls over the clock drawing power while your car is parked too?