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Originally Posted by gpsman1
The reason for me putting in LED is to have less electrical demand and extended EV driving and increased MPG. Thus I do not desire to put in resistors, as this would draw a similar current to the original bulb, and defeat the purpose. My LED's that fit the original bulb socket are LED arrarys with either 24 or 32 super-bright LED's that are at least 80% as bright as the original part, and much brighter than cars of the 60's and 70's still on the road, so appear "street legal" although there is no such claim on the package.
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Seems a bit hard to accept that a tail light would have much of an effect on EV mode or MPG. The low beam headlamp is 55W..... the electric motor is 95kW at full power... There are several orders of magnitude difference in power consumption there. Even a low beam headlamp is likely to be pretty insignificant and a taillight is going to be less than 55W.