This Motor Trend article is a weak regurgitation of Karin Kirk's 'Yale Climate connections' promo blog for green energy, which uses US government's https://www.

This Motor Trend article is a weak regurgitation of Karin Kirk's 'Yale Climate connections' promo blog for green energy, which uses US government's https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/atv.shtml https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/atv.shtml claims. There are a lot of very confident claims here but little substantiation other than academic postulations. ' The final loss of energy is from auxiliary electrical components like heated seats, lights, the audio system, and windshield wipers. Taken together, these accessories can consume up to 2% of the vehicle’s total energy intake.' Ironically the complete reliance in BEVs to run accessories off their batteries is one of the major reasons battery life is so poor. This sort of of vague proselytizing isn't helpful and arguably misrepresents BEV and to a lesser extent hybrid maturity IMO.