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?
Ouch! Seriously, that's an excellent typo.
“Or just drive in reverse everywhere. Electricity goes back into the batteries.”
Oh nice. I learned something new today! :)
Pretty sure he’s charging at 120v, not 240v, because the 240v requires 60amps and that little genset probably is 5,000w at the most.
Will take many hours and many gallons of gas just to charge car for 50 miles.
“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.”
I believe the zero is zero miles left. The number I see is this is given when the battery gets down to 20% and the engine comes on to keep the battery at that level.
In mountain mode it will be higher so you can use both engine and battery for max power on a climb
But 95% of Tesla charging stations work, right? Until they don’t
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“But 95% of Tesla charging stations work, right?”
Yes, according to an independent survey.
“ Southern California means the gas is probably $6 or $7 a gallon.”
I gave $3.77 for premium where I love.
I think regular was in the $3.40 range?
The poor battery saps would probably come out better always using a generator here especially if they convert it to E85 @ $2.59 gal
I just sent this picture to TWO Tesla owners.
Only a liberal would be stupid enough to think they could power their car down the highway with a 5 HP generator.
Might be a business opportunity for aftermarket generators installed in trunks of teslas. Funny.
He is just cutting out the Electric Company as the middleman (which gets a lot of its electricity from fossil fuels, most likely)
A couple of weeks ago I paid $3K to install two 240V/60A outlets, and a new 100A panel to power one of those outlets and seven new 120V outlets intermittently, and seven other 120V outlets connected to my old continuous powered panel.
The Chevy Volt was gas/electric, the most sensible ‘EV/hybrid’ I’ve seen, but they blew it on failed marketing.
Disel = Diesel
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The first electric car I ever saw (1970’s) was towing a gas generator. A sign of things to come.
It costs at least 4 grand to go from 100 amps just to 200 amps in an old house.
How about 5 g’s in N. California for the same overhaul.
My wife and I are down to 1 car for the two of us. It gets 20 mpg. The car is paid for and in good shape with 4 brand new tires and a new AAA battery.
With our limited driving, a gallon lasts us about 1 week.
EV’s and Hybrids also have the ICE and electric motor on the same crankshaft. I do not believe that Diesel Locomotives and submarines (which do have batteries for obvious reasons) have independent shafts, the electric motor turns mechanically independent of the ICE.
There are both ‘series hybrid’ automobiles, and ‘parallel hybrid’ automobiles. The ‘series hybrid’ vehicles have the electric and IC motors in series (on the same shaft), but the ‘parallel hybrid’ vehicles do not. Locomotives, as you said, do not, and are also not a hybrid, as they have no propulsion batteries.
Energy inefficient, among other things.
This is what happens when a total moron becomes governor. The same thing is coming to New York State if AOC ever becomes governor.
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