Posted on 09/03/2022 2:36:52 PM PDT by know.your.why
“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.
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…
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.
“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)
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.
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.
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.
Except the SPCA won’t let you run the squirrels.
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.
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.
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.
Bkmk
Funny
Photoshop it to show the cable going into a Mr. Fusion. It would break the innerweb.
Locomotives have no propulsion batteries. EVs and hybrids rely on batteries to store power.
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?
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
I know it’s possible.
These days, seems like anything is.
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