I have a new Countryman SE. For now, I just have a level 1 charger (when plugged in, it pulls 1900 watts).
It’s pretty cold today, about 29F. I turned on climatization about 30 minutes before getting into my car. To my surprise, the battery was 1 kWh less than full. I checked my energy monitor and the car started pulling the usual 1900 volts as soon as I turned on the climate control.
so, in just 30 minutes, even with 1900 watts flowing into the car, it drained the battery by 1 kWh. Without any power to the car, draining 1 kWh in 30 minutes means it was pulling 2000 watts. Add the 1900 watts to that and the climatization was pulling….. 3900 watts?!
A full room space heater on its highest setting pulls 1500 watts. I have a hard time understanding why it requires the power of 2 full space heaters at full blast just to run the heater in my car. Is this normal? Or am I just bad at math?
It’s pretty cold today, about 29F. I turned on climatization about 30 minutes before getting into my car. To my surprise, the battery was 1 kWh less than full. I checked my energy monitor and the car started pulling the usual 1900 volts as soon as I turned on the climate control.
so, in just 30 minutes, even with 1900 watts flowing into the car, it drained the battery by 1 kWh. Without any power to the car, draining 1 kWh in 30 minutes means it was pulling 2000 watts. Add the 1900 watts to that and the climatization was pulling….. 3900 watts?!
A full room space heater on its highest setting pulls 1500 watts. I have a hard time understanding why it requires the power of 2 full space heaters at full blast just to run the heater in my car. Is this normal? Or am I just bad at math?
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