Tesla with a generator on a hitch haul
[img] [/img] Photographed by a friend in Kali, you just gotta see these things to believe them. There is a charger a few miles away, but when he talked to another EV owner, the owner said tha...
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Reisender wrote:
Yah. I agreed with everything you just said. But for pre-heating the Tesla doesn’t work like that. The poster mentioned he had been running the genny for 24 hours. It takes 5 or 7 minutes to pre-heat the tesla and it can do it from it’s own battery. He or she was running the genny for other reasons. Probably low charge. Makes sense, albeit really slow. Even at 24 amps 120 volts from that genny.
Maybe you missed the part about "severely reduced capacity in cold temperatures?"
Sure you can warm it up using its own batteries, but how much of a hit on range will there be pulling from the cold batteries?
Maybe the owner ran the generator to keep the car and batteries warm for the 24 hours it sat there, rather than let the batteries get cold and having to start from scratch? That generator can't run for 24 hours at full capacity, and isn't all that quiet so I doubt it was actually charging the car. Those Hondas are really only quiet at idle.
