Yep. And no mention of "cost" anywhere in the post.RonDawg said:I've got a feeling the OP is trolling. The title is asking how much it would cost to charge, then the next statement is how it's "not good" for a car to be charging for 8 hours.
If your dryer is in a US home then probably 240v. However, you don't know the current so you cannot calculate power.crab said:I found that a overnight charge is the same as running my dryer at 208 volts for eight hours. not good
Same story to a tee.specialgreen said:I have been chasing vampire loads for a couple of years, and had gotten our home electrical use down near 4MW-hrs per year (400 kw-hrs/month). This was the result of efforts to get our annual home electrical consumption below our solar production.
So when I added the Leaf, it did kind-of make my heart sink to see the power use. The Leaf will almost double our electrical consumption, which seems to mock those efforts to shave 10 watts here, 20 watts there. Of course, driving the Leaf is a huge improvement over an ICE. But when you dump gasoline in a car, the energy consumption is sort-of hidden. Or rather, you know about it only in the "car" part of your brain which is somehow disconnected from the part of your brain that just put-in an LED bulb. It's easy to overlook how much energy it really takes to propel two tons down the freeway at cheetah speed.
So, I have to agree that seeing the power bill still makes me think: "not good!" But it's given me some extra insight, and now if I have time, I commute on city streets (25 minutes, versus 20 minutes on freeway... but about 40% less energy), and I even bicycle sometimes (55 minutes at 1 burrito per hour).
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