[T.B. Yoits]

Idling doesn’t consume energy in an electric vehicle. Not a bit. If you didn’t need lights, AC or a radio, you could idle for literally years in an electric car.

Idling in a driveway is one thing. Bumper to bumper traffic is another.

The brake lights alone are a constant drain in bumper to bumper traffic, along with the wipers and defroster on many days.

...and how many days a year in New York City would you not need air conditioning or the heater?

[dangus]

OMG, just STOP! Front and back break lights are 31 watts, combined (23 and 8, and yes, I had to look that up). An electric car’s battery is over 100,000 watt-hours so that means that the break lights could be powered for over 1,000 days. The AC is a whopping 100 times more powerful than that, 3 kw, so it can be cycling on (compressor activated) for only 330 hours, or 13 days. That is so many times more longer than a gasoline engine, maybe a couple dozen!