sockinacock@lemmy.fmhy.mltoYou Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK: A car takes uses about seven seconds worth of fuel to start up. If you are going to idle for a period of time longer than that, you'll save fuel by turning your engine off.
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1 year agoAccording to priuschat you can leave your prius “idling” with light duty power draws (a small lcd tv and a fan) for about 7 days on a full tank of gas.
Also I think on the prius the starter motor-generator is also the one that bleeds excess engine power to charge the battery, but I’m not 100% sure on that one.
DEFCON’s going to be great this year