Re: Too early.
"Or is the power consumption for what is effectively a headless PC negligible in this context?"
You can make a reasonable guess at an answer to that:
A typical efficiency for an EV is about 4 miles per kWh.
My laptop has a 50Wh battery and let's say it can run for 3 hours (without the screen on) before it's flat. So in 1 hour that's 0.05/3= 0.017kWh of energy drawn from the battery.
At the car's efficiency of 4 miles per kWh, that corresponds to a loss of 4x0.017=0.067 miles of range, every hour. That seems negligible to me.
Putting it in perspective, I'm assuming my laptop draws 17W when running (without the screen), that feels a bit low, but comparable with even LED headlights running or a decent sound system pumping out some driving tunes.
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