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Old 10-24-2016, 01:52 PM   #73 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by cowmeat View Post
The heater seems to use more battery reserve than the AC does in the Volt.

I had the heater on for a while this morning de-fogging the windows and I ended up using 4.4 kWh on the way to work, where I was averaging about 4 kWh using the eco AC setting a week ago.

6kw-8kw vrs 2kw

There is also a battery heater that kicks in below 50F
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