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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rjstractor wrote:pianotuna wrote:
rjstractor,
I found 24 kw to move 100 miles, on the wobbly wide web. (model 3 Tesla)
However I did not know that when plugged in the tesla won't move. I guess that is a good safety feature.
Don, a Model 3 doesn't go 100 miles on 24 kilowatts, it goes 100 miles on 24 kilowatt/hours. I think you're confusing the concepts of absolute power output (kw) and power output over time (kw/hr). It's kind of like the idea of torque and horsepower.
Since the car takes 24 kw/h to go 100 miles, that little generator would need to run for just over 9 hours at 2.6 kw to produce that much power. So the car would be moving at about 11 mph. That's assuming it was able to put all that power into the car battery, which it can't. To move the car at highway speed (60 mph) for 100 miles, the generator would need to produce the 24 kw/h in 100 minutes, which requires a generator with a power output of 15 kw. That's a pretty big generator to pack on a hitch hauler. :B
That is also more than you can put in at 240V. Without higher voltage you are capped at 12kw.
