re: When the Going Gets Tough, the Electric go Petrol

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If you feed a 1/4" line into a 1" line it will last longer than if you didn't feed it with anything is what he was saying. Not fixing the issue and making it a fully sustainable solution but making it just go further.

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Because od losses involved it makes no sense.

"Tesla model 3 Level 1 charging uses the standard 110/120V electric outlet used in most homes. This gives you at least 2 miles of Tesla range per hour of charging (and as many as 4 miles) depending on variables. This means that on an average, a Tesla Model 3 will get a bare minimum of 25 miles (40 kilometers) of range with a single, 12 hour night charge.

A Honda EU2000 generator will provide 120 volts at a maximum of 20 amps, equivilent to the capacity of a standard 120 volt 20 amp home outlet as needed by the Tesla level 1 charger. The EU2000 is the most fuel efficeint available at this power level. The Tesla level I uses 16 amps at 120 volts while charging, this equates to a 75% load on the EU2000 which will run 6 hours at that load on .92 gallons of gas .


To add 25 miles to the range of the Tesla model 3 will require running the generator 12 hours burning almost 2 gallonns of gas, and this is with the car stopped, charging while moving would just make the numbers worse.

Just burning the two gallons of gas in a Hond Civiv would have carried you 60 miles or more.

Any method you chose to charge faster requires putting more energy into the battery in less time this will allways equate to more gas burned. No way around the physics.

No matter how much the plug in boys want it to be so, electric cars are not the answer and still have a long way to go. The American People don't want those toys.

They dismiss fuel cells, but I have shown evidence that large corporations have damn sure not done so, and the soy drinkers have shown little to refute me.

You can't plug in ships, trains, aircraft, and heavy trucks and equipment. But I have shown that fuel cells or hydrogen can run them all and run them clean. We will see who's right in the next few years.