Coast to coast in an Electric car towing a trailer.

John & Angela wrote:
Takes 20 to 30 minutes to charge and they are good for another couple hundred miles.

Where did these figures come from?

The x gets just a little over 200 miles by itself let alone pulling a big sail and anchor behind it. And that is without AC or a heater and all the windows up.

tplife wrote:
I'm not comfortable driving a car that runs on coal, as typically the power grid that fuels electric vehicles do.

Are you in SoCal? SCE is ZERO coal as of 2014.

https://www.sce.com/
OK there might be some under "unspecified" however it is going to be small.

Why would people have trouble with running their vehicle on coal but perfectly comfortable running their home on coal?

tplife wrote:
I'm not comfortable driving a car that runs on coal, as typically the power grid that fuels electric vehicles do. Now once that 500-year supply of oil runs out, rest assured, I'll be right in line with everyone else using the "new" technology.

http://www.ucsusa.org/clean-vehicles/electric-vehicles/ev-faq.html#bf-toc-11

Heh heh. I suppose, but a couple things, these folks are travelling across Canada so not much coal is going to be burned for them. Some provinces still burn a little coal for power but it is getting to be a fairly small percentage of the total in this country.

If you are driving a gas or diesel vehicle the energy used at the refinery was electricity. If you live in a country or region of a country that gets its power from coal plants then your present vehicle is still burning coal. To produce a gallon of fuel is roughly 4 to 8 KW of power. So I guess really many are driving coal fired cars depending on where you live. :)

If you and your Tesla are going through Tucumcari NM you can stop off at the Holiday Inn Express and plug into one of about six Tesla charging stztions. I couldn't figure out what they were so got a little closer and they even had a red Tesla sign on each.

westernrvparkowner Makes some good points. As an FYI I was able to determine the power distribution for a CG with 50A sites. There was a 100KVA transformer feeding 18 50A sites. Therefore the average power per site was 100000/120/18 = 46A per site. This is the average and doesn't restrict a site from using up to 100A at 120V. The electrical distribution was new and to code.

Most house panels are similar. If you add up all of the branch CBs the results will exceed the panel rating.

gbopp wrote:
In 15 or 20 years will some of be driving Electric Pushers :@

We can only hope. Kinda like the sound of my Cummins though. Our electric vehicle sounds like the CYLONS from battlestar galactica. Its actually an artificial sound they added so people can here them. Some people disconnect the speaker. Meh, its only until it gets to 30 KMH and then the sound cuts out. I'm sure someone will come up with a good fake sound of a cummins. :)

I'm not comfortable driving a car that runs on coal, as typically the power grid that fuels electric vehicles do. Now once that 500-year supply of oil runs out, rest assured, I'll be right in line with everyone else using the "new" technology.

http://www.ucsusa.org/clean-vehicles/electric-vehicles/ev-faq.html#bf-toc-11

tdiller wrote:
Only two things run on batteries...
Golf carts and
Toys.

Until a vehicle can go 3-400 miles on a charge and refill/recharge in five minutes and do it again and again all day it'll never sit in my garage.

:)

Only two things run on batteries...
Golf carts and
Toys.

Until a vehicle can go 3-400 miles on a charge and refill/recharge in five minutes and do it again and again all day it'll never sit in my garage.

It looks like they have 800 watts solar on the trailer, and they can transfer a little into the car in a pinch.