But she's a fuel hummingbird
I did say electricity pig, not energy pig. Poor choice of words.
I should add that the climate control fan, for example, is very efficient compared to my Previa. The electric steering assist is very miserly too and draws nothing when not in use. Compare that to a power steering pump on an ice car that eats ~200-400 watts base load.
Of course it's all the electrical do-dads that allow the Prius to be more efficient. There is no such attention to efficiency in the average ICE car.
And the in-out efficiency of the Prius is much higher so those watts require much less fuel to make.
The other thing is that the battery I'm using had been sitting for a few months and needed "waking up". I based that pig comment on the voltage sag, not the actual measured watts.
I guess I should go apologize to my car for a poor choice of words. (and Bob too)
