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Re:S.F. says incidents by Cruise, Waymo driverless taxis are... by Retric on Friday July 14, 2023 @06:19PM (#36730715)
It doesn’t actually take that much energy to move a 4000 lb vehicle. 15,000 miles per year * 1 kWh / 4 miles ~= 10.3 kWh per day ~= 430 watts 24/7. Few loads are 24/7 but a single crypto mining PC can easily use several times that.
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Re:S.F. says incidents by Cruise, Waymo driverless taxis are... by barbazoo on Friday July 14, 2023 @06:28PM (#36730788)
I got 15,000 miles * 1.344 kWh/mile = 20,160 kWh or 55 kWh / day
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Re:S.F. says incidents by Cruise, Waymo driverless taxis are... by Retric on Friday July 14, 2023 @06:33PM (#36730832)
Several ~4k lb EV’s get ~400 mile of range on a 100 kWh battery pack that’s 0.25 kWh/mile or 1 kWh / 4 miles.

The Hummer EV is much worse, but it’s also ~9,000 pounds fully loaded.

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Re:S.F. says incidents by Cruise, Waymo driverless taxis are... by coryrc on Friday July 14, 2023 @06:51PM (#36731007)
Most EVs are 0.2-0.4 kWh/mi.
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Re:S.F. says incidents by Cruise, Waymo driverless taxis are... by zeroonetwothree on Friday July 14, 2023 @08:14PM (#36731742)
And if you solar charge your car it basically doesn’t matter anyway. You can charge at peak production times so it’s extremely efficient for the grid.

We also have to consider that bikes aren’t super efficient either.

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