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0 pointstrstregfsdgfd3y ago0 comments

Why? Comparing the power consumption of an EV on charge to a fridge is a very unfair comparison.

If you drive 200 EV miles per week, you need 60kWh per week, or about 360W continuous.

At approx. 4.5kWh per cycle, that's 13 tumble dryer loads per week. Even that seems an unfair comparison - I'm not sure how many people run 2 loads per day every day.

I was hyperbolic in my original comment, but that's still several hours of tumble drying every day.

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ianai3y ago· 1 in thread

Using hyperbolic arguments is not how to have a rational, well rounded discussion.

trstregfsdgfdOP3y ago

Colloquially, if I had a household that ran their tumble dryer twice a day every day, I might say it's "running almost continuously".

Which domestic appliance do you think is a fair comparison to the power needs of an EV? As I've already pointed out, in a very rational way, you would have to be a very heavy user of your tumble dryer to make even that a fair comparison.

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