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Rygianlast Sunday at 7:31 PM2 repliesview on HN

Charging rate of 11 kW, with efficiency of about 90%, means that the charger sucks around 12.2 kW of power from the grid, of which 1.2 kW is continually lost*, and only 11 kW is effectively being stored in the battery at any point in time.

I don't understand the mention about battery capacity (80 kWh, which would translate to around 7½ hours of charging at 11 kW, if a battery could charge at a uniform rate) or where the "9 kW lost" figure comes from.

*Which is probably useful to melt snow above the device, when installed outdoors on cold climates.


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onlyrealcuzzotoday at 8:25 PM

The average person is spending about $1.50 to $2.00 in electricity per day to drive a car.

This would cost $0.15 to $0.20 per average trip to NOT plug in.

Average person spending $100k on a car would likely pay that without a second thought.

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idiotsecanttoday at 8:21 PM

unit confusion