Exactly what I wanted to see tested! I have a hookup to my home via an inlet with this exact generator. Seems like I'll be able to do ~20A and charge if the power ever goes out. Thanks for the video!
It's a GREAT idea. Predator 5000 is 120 and you can throw it in your trunk. You could get a bigger one, but 240 is 5x more and I'm not sure if they will fit in your trunk.
I track my Tesla and it is hard to find chargering stations near many of the locations where we race. This will be great to add ot my trailer so I can top off my Tesla between driving sessions.
It’s not the volts alone that set the time of charge for the car, it’s the available amps, watts, that set the speed of the charge. Max amps on 120 volts is 20 amps, 2400 watts max at the wall or generator outlet. Max amps, typical on 240 volts, 50 amp outlet is 12000 watts. Big difference.
I saw one here on You Tube where the guy bought another identical battery pack , mounted it on a trailer and wired it in such a way as it parallels the car's battery effectively doubling its range and then had an on board 15Kw generator to charge it up effectively making it a hybrid. It worked . I think he bypassed thr charging port when hooking the second battery in it. He even had the cooling system for the battery installed also.
It is no different than running the battery all the way fown , THEN calling a diesel towtruck with a diesel generator to recharge it with. That charge will cost $1,500.00 . LOL
Thank you for this test, 9-10 hours for a full charge is a long time. I was wanting to know this information for evacuating during a hurricane. Was considering loading up some propane tanks and the generator but by the time I get the car charge Ill be in the middle of the storm.
I live in Florida and I just got my m3. I was worried myself but no longer am. I have my electrical hooked up to my house and it's always ready before the night is over . Knowing that a generator would fully power my tesla in an emergency over night is perfect.
Personally I would go for the small inverter & only use enough to get me to the nearest super charger. Emergency only gen 🌞 looking forward to my Cyber truck🌞
I have a question. If a tesla is dead and stranded on the side of road and needs charge. How much time will i have to wait until i at least get 15-20miles of driving with the little generator? And also same question with the big generator? Your knowledge will really help me out.
He showed it in the video. The Tesla was charging at 18 miles per hour. Meaning it was recouping 18miles worth of charge per hour it's on the charger on the big one (14 on the small one). So for 20 miles. An hour to an hour and a half.
Grid will usually be much cheaper. Around TX we get around12 to 14 cents a kWh so to charge the car from zero to full would be around $10 to $12. To charge the car from a generator from 0 to 300 miles would take around 15 hours and go through two tanks of gas or around 14 gallons of fuel. To fill it up with the generator at $2.50 a gallon gas would be around $35. This would give Tesla around 21 mpg when charging off the Generator. Not bad but charging from the generator would be for non normal situations like when the grid is down or if you are out camping where no electricity was available.
Well the energy has to come from a PURE Sine Wave inverter/generator. An unwritten rule is 80% max capacity for generators for surges/other. Really for peak efficiency, most gas generators are capped to 50% max efficiency. At -about 3 miles/KWH after efficiency losses converting the power through the charger. That gives you about 10 miles of charge per hour. This truly is a last resort. If a Tesla Battery pack is 80KWH, expect about a 24+ hour charge time minimum.
PHEV is much better, a guy on here bought a $220 1500W inverter, installed it in back area of 2024 Wrangler, and was able to run his fridge, TV and a lot of lights in his house. He could run a coffee maker in his Jeep while his TV monitor and Apple TV WERE ON! $220! So it could be used for camping, or at home if the power was out. Jeep to the rescue. With factory front and rear lockers, and a 100 to 1 crawl ratio, and 2000 lbs. lighter, will easily out-climb a CyberTruck.
What happens when you run out of gas for your generators?? If you say go to the gas station to fill up fuel cans just do the same for gas powered vehicle
Petrol has much higher energy density than batteries even after inefficiencies you travel significantly further with backup fuel tank than carrying extra batteries.
So at 18 mph. In ten hours you would have 180 miles available. Wouldn’t that need about ten gallons of gas for that larger generator? Or you could put 10 gallons into a Toyota Camry and go approximately 300 miles in no more than 10 minutes….. I do like this video though. Thank you.
Of course it will!!!! It's not against the laws of physics!!!! But it takes either GASOLINE or DIESEL FUEL to RUN the generator, depending on what sort of generator you are using!!!! Can you dig that!!!!!!????
Chevy Bolt EV keeps its cost low by having slower-charging circuitry than its more expensive competition. You basically compared the fastest charging EV with the slowest charging EV on the market.
Im no expert on the subject so please don't laugh at me but couldn't you install a belt driven generator on your car off the axle or something and charge on the go just asking
This tesla don't have charge on the go i think.. Imagine using mobile phone while in charge.. Maybe those teslas batteries might blow using that belt. Also u need alternator to charge the battery not just a belt.. With weight and so on.. Just too unreliable
@@michaeljordan5972 because not reliable and not energy saving.. Using belt and alternator excess so much energy out. To start the alternator also use batery..
@@silvergaurchannel9609 well once again I'm no expert in the field but I think they can make it work if they wanted to I'm sure it's not that simple but I think they could do it if they wanted to
We'd like to get an EV in the near future, but this is why I'm still going to keep a gas vehicle, too. Rather than burning fuel to charge, I can just hop in a gas vehicle and use it if needed.
This wouldnt work if you had to preheat the battery first on the side of the road miles away from anyone in freezing temps you would die but whi would carry a gas generator in their Ev their too efficient 😂
thanks for the video, this is great video, however you can save all this hassle of so many hours of charging an EV can be saved buy owning a gasoline car. in 15 minutes you can drive to the a Gas station fill up your tank and go back home and do much more… EV’s aren’t ready yet.
You realize most people charge when they are at home doing nothing? Like after work pull into garage plug in and go about the rest of their day and in the morning unplug and drive off? Total time plug in 5 secs? Another 5 secs to unplug and drive off to work? You are not filling a tank of gas that quick.
This electric shit is stupid. You buy an electric vehicle because of emissions but run a gas generator to charge it. Seems legit and intelligent at the same time.
