Posted on 09/03/2022 2:36:52 PM PDT by know.your.why
This pic illustrates the irony that is gavin newsome's California. Maybe if Elon Musk threw in a trailer/generator/1000 gallons of gas for every Tesla purchase in California?
I recently bought a CO detector to put in a deer camp trailer since I don’t know if the gas heater is still good. To test it, I stuck it near a generator that is similar to the one in the picture. CO levels went to 999, the limit it could measure.
But this dude is saving the Earth!
That’s a novel idea. Someone should try that. I bet there is a big and long term market.
Or put it on a trailer. I had a Rav4 Hybrid Prime, which was a hybrid that could be charged and driven about 40 miles without using gasoline. Charging off a 120 VAC 15 amp circuit it would require about 10 hours to recharge from a 30 mile drive. If you put that generator on a trailer, it could probably recharge a Tesla at a rate that would support about 5 miles an hour, on average. Charge for ten hours, drive at 55 for one hour, rinse and repeat. Being a Hybrid, meant it could run all day on mogas and had about 500 mile range.
Lol good one.
In my best John McEnroe voice, "You can't be serious!"
No bumper sticker reading “EV owners no longer need gasoline!”
In case anyone wonders what is meant by “Clown World,” there’s this. Honk honk!
F*****g, virtue signalling assholes.
Diesel Electric work very much like that. But they have enormous diesel engines. That generator probably cannot put out much more than 5 kW or slightly less than 7 HP. To drive a Tesla one mile takes about 0.22 kWH, so that generator might be able to just barely support an average speed of 5/.22 = 22.7 mph. (Assuming the generator could ride free.) Another way of putting it is that you would have to charge about one hour for every 23 miles you intend to drive. The advantage of electric motors is that they have very high low end torque, so they are superior to piston engines for starting a railroad train, not requiring elaborate gearing.
Just the affordable, portable models that the peasants use to keep all their food from spoiling are illegal.
The ones that the elites can use to power their entire mansions for two weeks and cost tens of thousands of dollars are still good to go.
“I guess this is why California made gas generators illegal.”
Only if they have a high-capacity gas tank...
New 2023 electric cars in California come equipped with a squirrel wheel treadmill in the trunk. The squirrels will have an unending supply of nuts from Sacamento.
I’d think there’d be a good market for small trailers with generators to continuously charge on long trips.
California is telling residents to refrain from charging their electric vehicles through Labor Day due to energy shortages.
Bwaaaahahahaaaaa
Nope, not even close. Most people are unbelievably stupid. We’ve barely scratched the surface.
Tell me you are being facetious.
When the gas engine runs it powers the electric motor, but does not charge the battery, at least not the gen-1 volts.
It all depends on driving style when and if the gas engine fires up. I have a gen-1 volt that the engine fires on only when the battery is at zero.
A 10 hour charge typically gives me 35 miles of electric travel which is about 11kwh which costs about $1.49 to get 35 miles for another days use. I live 6 miles from any town and usually use all of the electric as close to zero as I can.
I've only had it 3 1/2 months and put 2,500 miles on it with total fuel burned at 0.03 gallons. Charging for the 2,500 miles is approx 833 kwh which in my area costs about $108.00 plugging it into the house at night.
My other vehicle is a Ram pickup that gets about 16mpg which 2,500 miles at $4 a gallon would be a $625 cost. Even if gas went back to $2.75 (doubtful under brandon) cost would still be $430 vs $108
On a fixed SS income I can surely put up with the $500.00 savings @ $4 a gallon. I am not a green fanatic and the move to a plug in hybrid is for purely financial reasons.
Wouldn’t the better question be “so you burn a gallon of gas in the generator, how many miles will the Tesla travel on that charge?”
If the portable generator burns 1 gallon of gas, but I get 100+ miles range off that charge; that seems like a good deal to me. My Tacoma does 18-20 miles under perfect conditions
“ There’s a business opportunity: Rent-a-Generator.”
Just build vehicles with the roofs made of solar collecting materials. Probably would work in Southern California and southwestern states with more days of sunshine.
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