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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: 5inch38gunner
It will probably be cheaper to charge your testes that way...

Ouch! Seriously, that's an excellent typo.

61 posted on 09/03/2022 5:59:26 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: know.your.why

“Or just drive in reverse everywhere. Electricity goes back into the batteries.”

Oh nice. I learned something new today! :)


62 posted on 09/03/2022 6:01:47 PM PDT by LeoTDB69
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To: caver

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.


63 posted on 09/03/2022 6:14:20 PM PDT by Arlis
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To: redcatcherb412

“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


64 posted on 09/03/2022 6:25:22 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: TexasGator

But 95% of Tesla charging stations work, right? Until they don’t


65 posted on 09/03/2022 6:57:23 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: know.your.why

Bookmark


66 posted on 09/03/2022 7:02:03 PM PDT by Chgogal (Welcome to Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! Fuhrer Biden is supported my MSM & DC.)
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To: qaz123

“But 95% of Tesla charging stations work, right?”

Yes, according to an independent survey.


67 posted on 09/03/2022 7:05:19 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: caver

β€œ 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


68 posted on 09/03/2022 7:31:02 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it πŸ€ͺ)
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To: Grampa Dave

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.


69 posted on 09/03/2022 7:32:59 PM PDT by politicianslie (Those who got vaxxed need to update their wills. You are a guinea pig in a dangerous drug trial.)
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To: know.your.why

Might be a business opportunity for aftermarket generators installed in trunks of teslas. Funny.


70 posted on 09/03/2022 7:40:18 PM PDT by wgmalabama (Censored!)
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To: know.your.why

He is just cutting out the Electric Company as the middleman (which gets a lot of its electricity from fossil fuels, most likely)


71 posted on 09/03/2022 7:52:15 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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To: 5inch38gunner
β€œ 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.”

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.

72 posted on 09/03/2022 8:19:58 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Disambiguator

The Chevy Volt was gas/electric, the most sensible ‘EV/hybrid’ I’ve seen, but they blew it on failed marketing.


73 posted on 09/03/2022 9:09:39 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Disambiguator

Disel = Diesel

Sometimes I post from my phone, snd I dtrgglw eith yhe snall nuttond.

πŸ˜†


74 posted on 09/04/2022 5:14:20 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: know.your.why

The first electric car I ever saw (1970’s) was towing a gas generator. A sign of things to come.


75 posted on 09/04/2022 6:23:12 AM PDT by HangThemHigh (Entropy is not what it used to be.)
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To: 5inch38gunner

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.


76 posted on 09/04/2022 7:05:21 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Anyone, who can make you believe in absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.!" ~ (Voltaire)!!)
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To: norwaypinesavage

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.


77 posted on 09/04/2022 9:39:32 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

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.


78 posted on 09/04/2022 10:54:58 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Capitalism is what happens when you leave people alone.)
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To: know.your.why

Energy inefficient, among other things.


79 posted on 09/05/2022 5:49:53 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: know.your.why

This is what happens when a total moron becomes governor. The same thing is coming to New York State if AOC ever becomes governor.


80 posted on 09/07/2022 10:42:15 AM PDT by George J. Jetso
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