EV's need gas too - Tow with a Tesla?
Had to laugh when a buddy sent me this pic. Here's a Tesla on the side of the road somewhere, 2 gennys cranked, to charge his car so he can continue. And a big bucket of gas sitting there. Wow, is...
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First impression is that the picture is staged. If it is not, there is something else going on other than trying to charge the car.
In the first episode of the TFL series where they take the Lightning to Alaska, they explain their plans for emergency charging which involved taking a Ford 150 hybrid with them from which they could charge the Lighting. They did a test to see how much charge they could get from the hybrid. They connected the Lighting to the hybrid and got two legs of 3600 watts for a total of 7.2 Kw at a rate of about 1 gallon of gas per hour from the hybrid. After an hour and 38 minutes they gained 8% on the battery which they estimated was about 24 miles.
Two generators in parallel (30 amp) would give you half of that, if that's what you think is really going on in the picture. A single generator would at best give 25% of the hybrid or about 1.8 Kw.
Considering that the 7.2 Kw rate from the hybrid is only about 1/7 of a "regular" 50 Kw charging station, you can see that trying to charge an electric car from a portable generator would be rather like trying to fuel your gas car with an eye dropper from a quart bottle.
In the first episode of the TFL series where they take the Lightning to Alaska, they explain their plans for emergency charging which involved taking a Ford 150 hybrid with them from which they could charge the Lighting. They did a test to see how much charge they could get from the hybrid. They connected the Lighting to the hybrid and got two legs of 3600 watts for a total of 7.2 Kw at a rate of about 1 gallon of gas per hour from the hybrid. After an hour and 38 minutes they gained 8% on the battery which they estimated was about 24 miles.
Two generators in parallel (30 amp) would give you half of that, if that's what you think is really going on in the picture. A single generator would at best give 25% of the hybrid or about 1.8 Kw.
Considering that the 7.2 Kw rate from the hybrid is only about 1/7 of a "regular" 50 Kw charging station, you can see that trying to charge an electric car from a portable generator would be rather like trying to fuel your gas car with an eye dropper from a quart bottle.
