Charge a Tesla With Portable Solar Anywhere 

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Where did the heart spoon come from?

I stayed for the Tandoori. But no Tandoori came. I'm complaining to the manager...

​​@TheChallenger1000 // I held RU-vid like for the crying tears and none came.

Me too

Then you wouldn't be using their commercial chargers.

It's better if work simply puts in solar panels over parking lot, and installs grid-power level2 chargers, but offset by the solar... often schools/libraries do this. One-car-sized panels are not enough to add significant charge, vs the cost

Yep, it's a great idea but at a high cost, the solar roof on new Prius Prime will charge 5-6 miles a day at peak watt capacity, but it costs over $600, which wille take over 5 years of solar charging to recoup the investment. Tesla vehicles have even larger glass roofs, i would guss the costs are much higher.

And then the homeless people in your cities can come by and take it. Very kind solar panel owners

​@@vassell86Being able to charge my car even if it's just for 10 km range is priceless to me. I would pay that 600 easily to have that option

I would pay extra for solar on my car to keep battery drain lost from happening

If you are talking about Tesla's idea of distributed power through the atmosphere, it's extremely inefficient at best, if one could actually make it work.

That won’t help not even by 1%

Toyota did this on 2nd gen prius to turn on fan while park and thought what a brilliant idea. I would also be very interested for solar tesla as well.

I agree, but Tesla owners would lose their panoramic glass roof.

Get ready! Save this video offline just in case one day there is no internet due to EMP and no electricity

2 miles for each hour charging... assuming you have full sun. I guess if your stranded somewhere, you might have enough charge to get home after a week or so..

Handy for end of days time, but all the roads would be filled with dead cars so can't use most of the roads.

Depends on how many miles a day you do. A small commute could be essentially made for free

​@@spike178its best to get a monster truck then

Lol, and that's a generous number!

Lots. 10-20% saved each step.

It's better to connect the solar MPPT to the EV charger

The onboard AC>DC Converter can handle any voltage from -200 to +200 Volt, it will likely need only different software to work as a mppt charger. - anyone from tesla here reading this?

Why aren't Teslas wrapped in solar panels? It's insulation and charging. You potentially never need to charge it if you don't use it enough.

Because generally speaking, it's very expensive and panels are usually delicate. Service would be a nightmare. It also adds significant weight, and does not add meaningful mileage to a car of that weight and battery size. The car would have to be designed from the ground up to make this work in a way enough people would want to make money off of. I highly recommend you take a look at Aptera if you want to see what it takes to make solar work well.@@l4kr

Lets not forget that it still has a plug. If solar minimizes DCFC or saves on expensive (california) home charging. Personally I'm looking forward to Aptera but actually care little about solar since here in BC power is cheap and vandalism is a concern. High efficiency EV sports car with storage and right to repair is enough....

3 miles per hour is only worth it if youre going way offroad far from towns. great for hot countries, but then again tesla is not so great for a hot country cause it heats up interior faster. Future teslas would do well to have solar power roof instead of viewing window which benefits the driver only if youre looking at parking signs.

This is great. All you need now is 2 hours of your life, every day and within a year you will save $50 for your time

Hey want you to use the super chargers that's where the money is. A charge box can be charged at home making them.nothing.

So the battery is like 50-70kwh, say 300mi range, and the solar panels are 0.2kwh a pop :) 20 miles per sunny day?

I thought he said you get like 3 miles for every 7 hours of charge. A few months I guess.

Its really an ad, these were given to everyone, even PC repair shops. This is the least effective way to charge a Tesla, seeing as your suffering the battery loss of the portable battery bank, then outputting to your Tesla which will again have another set of losses.

This video was not sponsored. On a good day you might get 10 mi from 4-100W panels, so about 24 days to go from 10% to 90% charge. Full charge would not be the uses case, you would prob just collect free miles as you use the car.

@@BeatTheBush NOBODY CAN ANSWER THIS : CAN I CHARGE MY JACKERY WITH 35,000 POWERBANKS? I KNOW IT NEEDS TO BE RIGGED SOMEHOW...I HAVE 3 OF THEM.THEY ARE REVPOWER

Solar panels work, only when there is no cloud in the sky. When the sun is covered by the cloud, the charging will stop. Some battery will re-start charging after the clouds pass but some need your intervention to get it to work again. If you have the latter, you have to, like the presenter, sit close to the car and watch. For camping, the camp sites are usually in the shade, which greatly limits solar charging efficiency. You can find a spot with an unobtrusive view to the sky for charging, but then you may need to sit close to the car to watch it.

@@Ninety9924 I'm not as familiar with the BMS for EVs compared to the ones in electric bike batteries but I'm not aware of anything that prevents "restarting". The battery will pull as many amps as it can when they're available when the voltage of the batteries is low enough compared to the voltage of the charger (solar panel array). I don't know about this Tesla but I heard the Hummer EV has a direct DC port as well as the normal one.

While this won’t work in real life for many reasons, Tesla really should let you add solar as an option.

The difference would be nothing. I saw a video about that where they took two Ioniq 28 (EV) one full with people and golf bags, and another one empty. They drove the same distance at the same time and the final consumption was identical. The difference of weight between the two car was 260kg or about 16%. So you can imagine the result would be the same with a few solar panels and a battery weighting *at most* 50kg. Actually to be precise in their testing they observed the lighter car to consume more (ever so slightly --> 0.1 to 0.2 kWh) and they thought maybe it was the car heating that worked less as they performed this test in winter. The people's body heat could have contributed. Could also be the margin of error as no two cars are 100% identical.

@@xWris3 Maybe the Ride Heigh could also play a minor Factor, heavier Car lower = more efficent aero maybe?

The bonding plug tricks the tesla charger into thinking it's plugged into a wall and not a solar generator.

@@BeatTheBush see aptera motors

Save the tea bag to brew it again and water plants with it.

@@theuglykwan bam, plant food. I will now save my Peace Lilly

No such adapter exists. You can hack your own and pretend to be a DC fast charger using the existing charge port. However, that requires knowledge of the proprietary Tesla signaling protocol and likely a step up of the dc voltage to over 400-600 VDC.

All these ideas are way to low of real power to be effective.

@@KevinSmith-os5yz is there a better idea?

@@wisdomandlove1661 if this type of ev is all you have, then get enough panels on your home to effectively charge your vehicle. Something like 10kwatts worth. That would give most people about 60kwhrs of total charge, if you left it plugged in all day. Thats about the typical battery capacity for an ev. Unfortunately that's about $20K worth of panels and equipment in US dollars. Otherwise you are still using grid power to charge, which is whole other can of worms.

@@wisdomandlove1661 just fyi, if you had the ev covered with solar panels, you might have about 400 watts . The better ev's use about 200whrs per mile. So with this setup you could park for an hour and then drive 2 miles. However that does not take into account the battery losses , so,realistically you could probably drive one mile for every hour you parked in the sun. a small wind generator would produce quite a bit less power. This of course assumes you aren't using any extra power such as lights, heater, ac, wipers, etc. So yes it could work i suppose, if you lived in a nice climate and only had to drive a couple miles to work. But then in those conditions I'd probably just ride a bike:)

Or maybe a solar car charger. There is really no reason to need the powerstation.

The only reasonable reason to own this thing is for backup power purposes. Since the unit can do 1800W out, it can handle the 4-5mi/hr charge rate which is roughly 1400W.

GoHerping - Not all "Calculations" are considered! for example, if the Grid goes down, and you can't get Fuel for your Generator: how do you then "Put a Price on the Uninterrupted Power you have created for your use case?" Or, what if you are just seeking to use less "Peak Time Of Use" Grid power, or even just "Zero" out, that part of your Grid Usage? or, use it to create Content for a RU-vid Channel, that gets "Monitized?"

you know if you pay someone to do it for you it is very pricy... but I think there are enough DIY stuff in the market that you can make good use of. you probably wants to start with a 350W portable solar panel, a battery and a manual switch which you can switch between using the grid or your battery. once you figure it out, it would be adding an Automatic Transfer Switch and expanding your panels and battery until you are all good.

i live off grid , i needed power and couldnt keep running a generator,, I have 1800w of panel and 5kw of battery and 1500w constant inverter, total cost so far 1500nz ,, got batteries free from a truck place, not perfect but fine for now,, next mission build up system so I can run my welder for a bit,, got better batteries coming, again free,, need more panels and a 6000w inverter, should cost another 1200nz to do this,, industry throws stuff away all the time like batteries , just got to go ask,,

not just the roof, make the frunk out of solar panels also. Maybe even some solar panels on the rear glass section. I would pay extra for a solar powered tesla.

@@Lowness125 well obviously a "solar powered tesla" would not be possible, but it would be neat to leave SentryMode on without range loss

This 400 watt configuration will like generate 0.3 kWh per hour so you'll get 1 to 1.5 miles per hour if it's a clear sunny day. I doubt even that the way the panels are not oriented in a optimized way.

I do too, lol

Sun was not the strongest. I saw 88W output from each 100W panel in full sun with this.

Output would have been greater if he had tilted the panels for direct sun!

@@BeatTheBush 1hr gives you 1% charg

Not to mention your actually using a nuther battery to change more than solar itself. 160w and 500w is a big difference

Took a look and the elephant In the room would be what about it’s crash safety rating going at 110mph with a resin shell?

@@BeatTheBush probably A LOT better than a motorcycle.

@@BeatTheBush composites are 7x stronger than steel. The Elaphe motors in the wheels allow for a larger crumple zone that was actually designed by Roush to deflect the momentum under the cabin. It has dual front airbags as well. I think those things along with Sandy Munro being involved from the beginning, it’ll be quite safe although nothing is safe at 110. 😊

​@@BeatTheBush - It is basically a "High Strength Motorcycle Helmet" with Additional Steel Framework! Maybe "Stopping Distance" is a Concern, for the 3 Wheeler, but, few people ask that! 🤔🧐🥴🙄

@@robertweekley5926 the vast majority of your braking power comes from the front wheels. Also sbkit 2/3rds kf it's weight is on the front wheels. Combine thst eith it being around 2000 lbs vs about 4000 for a model 3 and I'm willing to bet it has a much better braking distance.

I think More than 1 week :))

You Will LOVE 3 miles on 0%

@@angelgonzalez133 it's 0% except for the cost of the solar and the battery which you'll probably never make your money back on.

Most would charge as fast as their hardware allows. Referral link gets you 1000 supercharger miles.

@@BeatTheBush thanks, i have all night to charge, so no need to push the hardware. Is slower charging pr faster charging better for battery health and longevity?

Referral for new cars has been dead for a year or so now. The only referrals are for solar.

32 amp is the max for Tesla Mobile Charger. I usually set it at 20amp-24 amp , just feel better, the slower , the better for battery life, but it is 100% fine to charge 32amp at home... If you buy the Tesla Wall charge, it can be easily hooked up with your 1450 outlet wiring , it will charge up to 40 amp something, check the Tesla Website

Have a pre order, but not holding my breath to see even 10miles added per day. Lowering my expectations right from the start.

@@denisbaev5479 Where do you live, Greenland? I'm pretty sure they've done their maths. The thing uses 100wh per mile, so if you have a 700w solar output, every hour of charging theoretically gives you 7 miles. I assume there are some losses there, because over 10 hours (let's say 8am to 6pm) that would add up to 70 miles not 40. But I take your point, we will just have to wait and see how it pans out in practice. Obviously, the sunnier the location, the more miles you are going to get...

700 is never going to happen due to different angles on panels. At peak in super ideal conditions it might hit 625w. The key detail is the average per day and on paper in some areas they could hit 4.8 kwh; 3.5 kwh in summer in california is likely and that definitely can move the needle.

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and it taste like shit xD

Wrong title. Should be, how to make a tea in a tesla. :)

Exactly. I did this... once. Not sure if I'll do it more than a few times only to figure how and if it can work in other ways.

@@BeatTheBush My friends complained when I commented on your Facebook post about this. People are taking it too literally. I thought it was hilarious.

This explanation does make much more sense.

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Yes, the draw is higher than the solar. I would charge it at 1200W and deplete the battery to say 20%. Stop the car charging and let the battery bank charge it back up.

photovoltaic / solar thermal technician here: mentioning Will Prowse i tip my hat to you... you're on the right path Bro '

just one drawback... towing with any EV will cut your travel range by over 60%

​@@rupe53 - While likely true, there are people that don't "Road Trip" each Day, or "Commute a 100 Miles a Day", like so many of my Co-workers do! like, myself, for instance! I drive so little in my Commute, a slightly more sophisticated 300 Watts Rig, above this on presented, would cover my Commute and Shopping trips, for most Months, 6-9 Months per year!

@@robertweekley5926 ... you missed the point that adding a trailer for better accommodations would far outweigh any possible solar gain. Have you ever tried to find a parking space for a trailer at a grocery store or just driven through town with one? Yes, you could reduce your needs to suit the power available, but at what cost? It would be cheaper / easier to find the freebie charging facilities around town and bring your camp chair to gain the 5 mile range.

​@@rupe53 And what happens when you decide to camp off-grid way out in the boonies where the closest Level 2 charger is 100 miles away and you only have 10 miles left in your Tesla's battery? ... but you still have plenty of sun? You can only do Level 1 charging with the 120 Vac setup shown in this video. That's 2 miles of range per hour. However, there are split-phase inverters that you can purchase which will do 240 Vac output which then means you can do Level 2 charging at 9 to 52 miles of range per hours. With a trailer loaded up with 10 or even 20 solar panels rated at 240W each, you can charge up quick and go as far as you want from "free" ground chargers. BTW, where exactly are YOU finding "free" ground chargers? But, yes, you are correct about cutting your max range by hitching on a trailer to an ANY vehicle. But saying that it cuts it by "over 60%" is a bit extreme, no? It of course depends on many factors ... are you driving across flat lands or over hills and mountains? ... how much weight are you putting into the trailer? ... what is the drag coefficient of your trailer? ... have you ensured your tires are properly inflated to 32 PSI? To reduce coefficient, manufacturers are already offering V-nose trailers since even off-gridders with ICE vehicles are already concerned about saving fuel while hauling trailers on camping trips. As for your question, "Have you ever tried to find a parking space for a trailer at a grocery store or just driven through town with one?" ... I'm going to go on a limb here and say you live in a highly populated city and have never went on a road trip beyond your area's suburbs, correct? Because, had you left your metropolitan area, you would have discovered that there are numerous locations within a mile or two of 99% of America's freeway and highway main exits where you can ABSOULTELY find a parking space for your car and a trailer. Where do you think truckers with their 18-wheelers sleep for the night now? Not only do truck stops with convenience stores and restaurants in them want your business but Walmart allows overnight stopovers for RVs and camper trailers as well ... it's literally on Walmart's corporate web page ... "While we [Walmart] do not offer electrical service or accommodations typically necessary for RV customers, Walmart values RV travelers and considers them among our best customers. Consequently, we do permit RV parking on our store parking lots as we are able." Anyways, you're asking questions that RVers and campers with trailers have already vetted for the past 50+ years ... so, do a little research and stop thinking that the rest of America is myopically constrained to the same lifestyle that you city rats limit yourselves to. If that's what you really think, then why are you on THIS channel to begin with?

Do the math??? xD

@@Owsryudie Is it a linear regression relation or the closer we get to full charge it charges faster or slower?

@@Owsryudie I guess we have to base it on average input expected on specific date of the year and azimuth is not that relevant, therefore car orientation does not change?

Teslas charges slower as you get towards 100% but solar charging is so slow it would just take anything it gives.

I don't think it ever would. The battery management system has a phantom drain more than those panels could provide

Yes, independent off grid energy is nice indeed. Will get even nicer with better solar panels/stronger batteries/faster charging/possible nighttime charging in the future from the moonlight if the labels become strong enough? Nice stuff in store for the future! Always a reason to be hopeful and positive about the future!

Yes , they should all come with built in solar chargers so they can charge all day , even if you are driving

@@kuzinit2374 The amount of power vs the cost of that equipment is such a horrific ROI that is the reason ZERO Electric cars do this. It's basic math. This video MOCKS the stupidity of the average Green Idiot. He sat there for hours and thousands in equipment for 3 MILES of range.

@@mr3817 actually there are cars with solar. The Aptera and Lightyear One being the most notable examples

@@chidorirasenganz Yep, Sono Sion too. What people don't realise is that for the average car, yes a solar roof might not add loads of range, but what it will do is COMPLETELY ERADICATE phantom drain. I'd love to drive to the airport in my EV from home and have say 40% battery when I leave the car, not enough to get home, but over the course of a week it keeps trickling in for free and gets up to maybe 65-70% charge and you return from vacation and can drive straight back. That really appeals to me.

You get it back in two hours, and this is just a video he made to entertain and inform. Imagine this setup camping or out in the field away from electricity instead.

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@@danimal999 Then it would just keep your battery from running down while you sat parked out in the woods for a month?

@@phillipsusi1791 maybe you can’t count? This is about the same as being plugged into a 110V outlet, which many people do. No, it’s not a supercharger, but it’s a charging solution when there is no electricity available. Isn’t that the point?

@@danimal999 Maybe you didn't watch the video? He charged the car with a 120V outlet from the battery bank. He could only do that for a short while before the battery was depleted ( and that after dialing down the current the car was charging at iirc ). It took all day to charge up that battery from the solar panels in the first place. There's a big difference between being plugged into a 120V outlet all day and night pulling 1500W vs 600W ( the minimum setting the car can charge at ) for less than 3 hours a day. The latter is only going to get you about 8 miles of range per day, and the car loses about 5 just sitting there. So I guess over the course of a week with good sun and no rain you might end up with a few ( ~18 ) more miles of range than you started with, but that's best case.

Tesla makes solar panels.. but doesn't offer them as a roof option .. DUMB. People willing to pay big bucks for Tesla options would certainly pay $5k for a Solar Roof on their cars.

@@KrustyKlown Well, it's just not very practical tbh. It fits some niche cases, but in general, you're far better off just putting solar on your home for a variety of reasons. For example, by adding fixed solar panels when the car is destroyed the solar panels are destroyed as well. They have contemplated the notion of the CT bed cover having solar panels on it though, likely with a wing extension option, which could be viable. Either way though, it's simply not practical for their entire lineup and presently they are building as many cars as they can by making the builds as similar as possible.

@@Zaerki Nothing Practical about a lot of Tesla options, their customers are all wrapped up in the hype, even paying for options that don't exist, lol ($15K for full self driving that isn't yet) .. and when all Model 3/Y's look the same, having a solar hood/roof would be the only symbol of Tesla stature. So why not, Musk could get $10K for that option.

@@KrustyKlown You could have substituted your paragraph with "I'm a Tesla hater" and saved us both time. Have a good day.

@@Zaerki You could have substituted your paragraph with "I'm a Tesla Cultist" and saved us both time. Have a good day. Sorry if reality sucks for you .. Tesla sells many options that are NOT complete "Coming Soon" is what their website states for their $15K Full Self Driving that is still in Beta testing for longer than people have owned their cars, lol. The reality IS .. people like you LOVE Tesla, and will buy these over priced incomplete features just to have them .. so WTF not sell a solar roof/hood since Tesla makes solar cells ?? You people will buy them, so why not sell it?? It doesn't need to make sense, Love ain't sensible. FYI - I don't hate Tesla, it's a great car.. hell, they use products with my Patents. What I do hate is their marketing practices, and how Tesla Cultists are blind to the deception.

It's a very expensive jerry can :)

Thing is, if they did integrate them with cars, they could probably do it for a lot less and they could make integrated panels look pretty cool. There is free real estate on the front hood the roof and the trunk.

@@macmcleod1188 they are good for caverns. not for private cars. a portable solar panel one can generate 350W, good enough for daily need if you have the space to spread them out.

@@egaskrad I can't figure out what you mean by "caverns". Bad auto correction?

@@macmcleod1188 caravan. thanks man.

yes yes yes !!!

Imagine if there were a way to make the whole body of the car solar.

@@GoogleVideoMan Aptera has one.

there are too many drawback for now 1) you said it. the output is so bad. you get like 6 miles per 8 hours of direct sunlight which you would get more by plugging it into a home outlet in 1.5 hours. 2) heat is not good to battery but to get solar power you must leave it under the sun. 3) then there are the shade and rainy days. we had a straight 3 week rainy days in the beginning of the year so you have to plug the car into an outlet anyway. putting everything together it is too much effort and too little gain

They could put three to four 400-watt panels that what I did to my Prius Prime

good point about it hurting the battery. Speaking of the heat, any AC you use to counteract the extra heat in the car from leaving it baking in direct sunlight for 5+hours, once you start driving, also eats away into any savings you got

Degrading paint 😂😂😂😂 which world do you live in

lol my car would be under sun no matter what. I love in central Cali. 😂 you can’t avoid sun… until winter

@@Mikemikeswehomenowsomeone has to always be a smart ass in the comments and show off their level of intelligence by demonstrating what little they actually know. You must not own a car because sun damage is a real and degrades the paint very quickly. Ever heard of the phrase we use during used car sales like, “garage kept” or always garaged????!!!!!!??!

@@onesikm3 Oh I’m a smart ass first and foremost. I’m going to pour up a cup of smart ass coffee and then report your comment. Furthermore, you pretty clear on what you know so I’ll leave you to solve the worlds problems then you’re really playing in on that Asian stereotype I’m sorry for your small package.

@@onesikm3 You’re such a tough guy. I didn’t know that Chinese people had balls.

Get a hybrid then.