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More like a tumble dryer, running almost continuously. Fridges/freezers, even huge US-sized ones, don't use that much power. I measured the average consumption
by trstregfsdgfd 4y ago
More like a tumble dryer, running almost continuously. Fridges/freezers, even huge US-sized ones, don't use that much power. I measured the average consumption of my under-counter fridge at less than 10W.
- ianai 4y agoThat’s an unfair comparison.
- trstregfsdgfd 4y agoWhy? 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.
- ianai 4y agoUsing hyperbolic arguments is not how to have a rational, well rounded discussion.
- trstregfsdgfd 4y agoColloquially, 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.
- Yizahi 4y agoA pass through water heater would be a good example (running 7 hours daily). Not many apartments would have a capacity to add a new water heater of such type, even for human use (10-30 minutes per day, spaced out across the building in time, not all simultaneously at the same hours).