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Southern Cali Tesla owner charging his car with a gas generator. *Pic*
https://i.imgur.com/eNLtwvw.png ^ | 09/03/2022 | Self

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?


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Humor; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: automotive; california; energy; fjb; grid; howdareyou; newsome; sucks; tesla; unicornfarts
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To: redcatcherb412

“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.”


The Volt motors always run off the battery and the battery is never allowed to go to zero.


41 posted on 09/03/2022 4:13:52 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: know.your.why

This pic is staged. There is no chance that it’s cheaper to charge that car with the generator than it is with the grid. Anyone who believes this pic, I’ve got a bridge to sell you…


42 posted on 09/03/2022 4:17:16 PM PDT by dinodino ( )
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To: Hodar

A typical portable generator will put out about 6kw per gallon. That’s enough to drive a Tesla 3 about 20 - 25 miles under ideal conditions.


43 posted on 09/03/2022 4:19:24 PM PDT by fluffy
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To: Hodar

“If the portable generator burns.....”

Huge “IF”. That generator is highly likely a 120v circuit and that can take up to 40 hours to fully charge a near dead Tesla. That and having to charge the car outside, or at least run a very heavy duty extension cord from the outside generator to the garaged Tesla is just a major inconvenience. There are no scenarios where this is not a fail other than full on blackouts in California (which is a distinct possibility)


44 posted on 09/03/2022 4:21:39 PM PDT by DAC21 (Ness)
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To: Grampa Dave

It will probably be cheaper to charge your testes that way rather than pay to upgrade your circuit panel for higher speed charging. It costs at least 4 grand to go from 100 amps just to 200 amps in an old house.


45 posted on 09/03/2022 4:22:10 PM PDT by 5inch38gunner
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To: know.your.why

Put that generator in the backseat and use it’s heat rejection to heat the passenger compartment and really do the green energy constipatestion thingy.


46 posted on 09/03/2022 4:22:24 PM PDT by Recompennation (Don’t blame me my vote didn’t count so mee s)
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To: Hodar

OK, I LOL’ed at your post.
That portable generator MAY be able to charge the car just a fraction faster than the parasitic loss of running the basic EV operating system.
I cannot say EXACTLY how many gallons the generator would require to reach a one-hundred miles charge. But I do know it will be a LOT more than one gallon!

Tesla in particular are notorious for their power drain even when “Off”.
One of the car test rags recently tried to recharge a test car on 110V in order to return it.
After three days they gave up and took it to a commercial charging station.
A small generator like that is less efficient than the 110V outlet.


47 posted on 09/03/2022 4:27:52 PM PDT by Ex gun maker. (Free thinking is now a radical concept, I will not be assimilated by PC or EV groupthink!)
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To: bunkerhill7

Except the SPCA won’t let you run the squirrels.


48 posted on 09/03/2022 4:30:58 PM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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To: LeoTDB69
Doesn’t the car have a charging adapter for a cigarette light? That way the car could self-charge.

Or just drive in reverse everywhere. Electricity goes back into the batteries. Works with gasoline cars too.
49 posted on 09/03/2022 4:45:49 PM PDT by know.your.why (If you dont watch the MSM you are uninformed. If you do watch the MSM you are misinformed.)
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To: know.your.why

I can’t think of anything that is more expensive to make electricity than a gasoline generator. At least convert it over to natural gas and save 3x to 5x on fuel costs.


50 posted on 09/03/2022 4:49:37 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: Hodar
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

I think recognise that generator. A Honda EB5000(watt). Will run for 10 hours at 75% load and I think thats 5 gallons of fuel.
51 posted on 09/03/2022 4:50:59 PM PDT by know.your.why (If you dont watch the MSM you are uninformed. If you do watch the MSM you are misinformed.)
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To: know.your.why
I think recognise that generator. A Honda EB5000(watt). Will run for 10 hours at 75% load and I think thats 5 gallons of fuel.

And I think a Tesla requires LOTS of watts! I just noticed that it is an open frame generator. Neighbors must be real happy listening to that.

52 posted on 09/03/2022 5:03:27 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: TexasGator
battery is never allowed to go to zero.

You are correct bad wording on my part. It just gives you a zero battery condition indication and starts the engine, but the battery always maintains a base charge, you just cannot use it for driving.

53 posted on 09/03/2022 5:11:18 PM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: Secret Agent Man

Bkmk


54 posted on 09/03/2022 5:21:08 PM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: LeoTDB69

Funny


55 posted on 09/03/2022 5:21:44 PM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: know.your.why

Photoshop it to show the cable going into a Mr. Fusion. It would break the innerweb.


56 posted on 09/03/2022 5:30:26 PM PDT by bigbob (z)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Locomotives have no propulsion batteries. EVs and hybrids rely on batteries to store power.


57 posted on 09/03/2022 5:43:42 PM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Capitalism is what happens when you leave people alone.)
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To: metmom

Yep, but not outside the realm of possible with that crowd. Biden’s cabinet and administration appointments are of the dumbest incompetent people ever to serve. Can you name a single appointment that is competent?


58 posted on 09/03/2022 5:53:35 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Biden not only suffers fools and criminals, he appoints them to positions of responsibility. )
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To: know.your.why

So using the “back up” method of charging, which we all know is not efficient- makes a conversion rate if about 20-25 miles range to the Tesla for each gallon of gas burned in the generator

How many ways can you create electricity? How many ways can you make gasoline?

Are EVs the ideal solution as they are now? Nope. We have made more improvements on battery tech in the last 20 years, than we have seen in the last hundred years. It’s not slowing down


59 posted on 09/03/2022 5:55:12 PM PDT by Hodar (A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.- Burroughs)
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To: RetiredTexasVet

I know it’s possible.

These days, seems like anything is.


60 posted on 09/03/2022 5:55:43 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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