Comment Re:And, Folks, stay tuned.. (Score 1) 239
It is also against the rules.
Since you can view the car as a plugged in device, as it's connected to the grid all night, it should follow the rules of phantom draw.
Basically if it's OFF it should be below 0.5w (was 1w in 2010).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standby_power
You could argue that it's systems like location sensing, gps, wireless networking and such that are never turned off, and are required for fast startup once out of the OFF-state, but a 3G modem that is not transmitting data can survive nicely on 10 mW if need be. Also, since the car can be assumed not to move when off, GPS can be kickstarted with old coordinates and the current time.
It is more likely this draw is from quite hungry computers that shouldn't even be there in the first place.
Since you can view the car as a plugged in device, as it's connected to the grid all night, it should follow the rules of phantom draw.
Basically if it's OFF it should be below 0.5w (was 1w in 2010).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standby_power
You could argue that it's systems like location sensing, gps, wireless networking and such that are never turned off, and are required for fast startup once out of the OFF-state, but a 3G modem that is not transmitting data can survive nicely on 10 mW if need be. Also, since the car can be assumed not to move when off, GPS can be kickstarted with old coordinates and the current time.
It is more likely this draw is from quite hungry computers that shouldn't even be there in the first place.