KUALA LUMPUR, April 16 — If you’ve been following eNM’s social media channels corresponding to TikTook, Facebook and YouTube, you’d know that we now have pushed the BYD Seal Premium from Kuala Lumpur to Kota Baru on a single cost throughout Raya eve. Interestingly, we obtained a variety of feedback concerning the effectivity of electrical automobiles and a few have the impression that EVs would run out of battery rapidly throughout standstill visitors.
So the query is, how a lot vitality does an EV devour throughout a standstill? Will the EV run out of juice rapidly whether it is caught in a jam for 10 hours? We put it to the test with the BYD Seal.
Starting with a 47 per cent cost, we parked the BYD Seal Premium in an open space below a sizzling solar. The automobile’s readout is indicating 36 diploma Celsius and we left the aircon working on this one-hour try. Because of the recent climate, the aircon is working very exhausting and the instrument cluster indicated 3kW of energy utilised to energy the aircon and the remainder of the automobile’s electronics.
Mind you that the BYD Seal has a glass roof which isn’t excellent for our sizzling climate. Thankfully, there’s a sunshade to assist to minimise warmth from entering into the cabin.
BYD Seal was drawing 3kW below sizzling climate. — eNM pic
After 23 minutes, the battery dropped by only one per cent, which signifies that an EV sips little or no vitality whereas at a standstill. Unlike a petroleum automobile the place the engine constantly burns gas, an EV’s motor consumes no energy and the battery is simply used to run the aircon and electronics.
BYD’s V2L adapter has a powerstrip with 4 retailers. — eNM pic
To make issues much more difficult for the BYD Seal, we even tried utilizing the EV’s Vehicle-to-Load (V2L) functionality. This function turns the BYD Seal into an enormous powerbank because the V2L adapter helps you to energy dwelling home equipment.
For this test, we used the BYD Seal to fry nuggets for 20 minutes with an Airfryer and we additionally boiled water for espresso with an electrical kettle. With V2L enabled, the automobile has discharged 1.2kWh for these dwelling home equipment.
Using the BYD Seal to energy an air fryer and kettle. — eNM pic
Exactly an hour later, the BYD Seal’s battery dropped to 42 per cent, which is merely 5 per cent of the battery. That means you would technically idle for over 20 hours in an extraordinarily sizzling climate situation even with the V2L function in use.
If we break it down, the aircon was drawing 3kW of energy (roughly 3kWh vitality) and the air fryer and kettle had been utilizing 1.2kWh of vitality. In complete, that’s roughly 4.2kWh which is roughly 5 per cent of the Seal’s complete battery capability.
Realistically, whereas idling, the aircon makes use of between 1kW to 3kW relying on climate situations. Assuming it’s only 3kW (3kWh per hour), you would idle for 27 hours on a full cost. If the climate is cooler, you would idle for 80 hours if the aircon solely makes use of 1kW.
As proven above, the BYD Seal makes use of little or no vitality throughout bumper-to-bumper crawling visitors. It makes use of lower than 10kW of energy to maneuver the automobile slowly. When it slows down, regenerative braking kicks in and helps recoup misplaced vitality again into the battery. — eNM
