Casey Liss
Chancerubbage@caseyliss I have a deeply ingrained notion that if a car is not running or moving, you are draining its battery and it won’t start again.
Jeff C. 🇺🇦🇬🇱@Chancerubbage @caseyliss Same, but that stems from when there weren’t cars that were basically giant battery packs on wheels.
Oh yes, no one is ever going to wear down an EV battery by keeping the AC on, blaring the stereo, charging their devices or being stuck in a traffic jam.
No one.
@Chancerubbage @caseyliss Yeah. Apparently “dog mode” in a Tesla can go over 10 hours, and that’s full AC with a lit-up screen.
I don’t know if I’d do a full Lord of the Rings marathon or anything, but I can’t imagine sitting in a parking lot and watching a few YouTube videos or whatever being a major problem.
The problem is people heading out on a low charge. They can run out of power in unseemly situations just like a car running low on gas. Except the rescue isn’t a 5 gallon gas can, it’s a much rarer beast, a super charger on wheels.
@Chancerubbage @caseyliss I presume that those people might leave their video binge session until they get home.
In my experience with EVs, low charge levels are pretty prominently displayed. If you’re low enough that this is an issue, you’ll probably make other choices about what you do with your remaining power.
Also worth considering that one of the main times one might want to watch videos in their parked car is while it’s currently hooked up to a charger.
I don’t think there has been any issue with watching whatever video you pleased while parked. Most of my posts in this thread have been about the perhaps never stated notion of the driver watching a movie while driving, and safeguards iOS already has to discourage or prevent such distractions in a vehicle it knows is moving.