No, nothing is pulled when stationary other than a titchy bit for radio/aircon. Really slow traffic means you're only pulling a KW or two when oozing along, so in fact your predicted range tends to rise in traffic, or at least remain the same for miles.
As a test, sitting waiting around for 30 minutes sometimes for my passenger to turn up of an evening recently, I've left the "engine" running in order to sit in the cool with the aircon on. Predicted mileage on these occasions drops by at worst, one mile.
Somehow it feels wrong to be parked next to someone in a mahoosive black SUV or similar who is clearly doing the same thing. That happens a lot in the car park I use. The difference of course is he is rumbling away like Vesuvius and of course, the exhaust fumes are pretty unpleasant.
At least my exhaust fumes come out of a nuclear power station out of sight, perhaps, so are steam. Oh, and a bit of harmless old 20 billion year lasting radiation, nothing really serious.
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