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[ALBERTAFARMER4]

A 100 KW battery would take a little over 66 hours to charge with a 1.5 KW generator.

That's right, 1.5KW charging is mostly useless but you could use it for daily driving in the city. In the winter it actually is useless. All the orange dots are DC fast chargers so I can't really think of a scenario where you'd have to charge that slowly.

[ALBERTAFARMER4]

So on your example trip post your consuming about $2 an hour or do you have some at home at the start and the finish?

I left for the trip at 100% battery and got home with about 20% but there was a lot of charging along the way. The easiest way to think of it is that 189 kWh of total energy were used to cover a distance of 1037km. 1 gallon of gasoline is the equivalent of 33 kWh and 1 litre is 8.9 kWh.

189 kWh / 8.9 kWh = 21.2 L / 0.89 = 23.8 L
or
189 kWh / 33 kWh = 5.7 gallons / 0.89 = 6.4 gallons
When you charge it's only 89% efficiency so then you have to factor that in as well for a true total energy.

So for this trip my MPG was..

644 Miles with 6.4 gallons which is 100.6 MPG
or
1037km with 23.8L or 2.3L/100km

Or you could just take 189 kWh / 0.89 = 212.4 kWh total including charging inefficiencies.

[TSIPP]

A 100 KW battery would take a little over 66 hours to charge with a 1.5 KW generator.

thanks AF4
nice to have real life experience teachings instead of the pre packaged drivel we receive on here
thanks again
very interesting

[Robertbarlage]

So like bringing a little honda 1500 Wat inverteewith ya how long would it take to charge with that just in case?

[AlbertaFarmer5]

This a great discussion with someone who is actually driving an ev. The diesel electric drive for tractors intrigues me the most.

And why not take that a step further, and put the electric motors on the wheels of the implements, and get rid of the over ballasted tractor in the front, dragging around a bunch of dead weight wheels, compacting every step of the way. Just move the power plant from implement to implement.

What we have now is akin to if we had kept the horse and buggy arrangement in modern automobiles, and the passengers still sat in a trailer behid the power unit.

[WiltonRanch]

This a great discussion with someone who is actually driving an ev. The diesel electric drive for tractors intrigues me the most.

[shtferbrains]

So on your example trip post your consuming about $2 an hour or do you have some at home at the start and the finish?

[ALBERTAFARMER4]

nice !
thanks, is it hard to find a plug in ?

Not really. You can slow charge from 120V @ 12amps (1kw) to 240v @ 48amps (11kw). The mobile charger you get has a removable plug that can be switched out to fit almost any plug you'd find. I mostly use 6-50 welder plug or a nema 14-50 (rv plug). On the road the fast charger network is really growing.

Do you encounter any line ups (additional wait time) at these charging stations?

I have not yet had to wait a single time in 3 years and 110,000km but I have had some close calls. Calgary one gets busy and Revelstoke can be a bottleneck with only 4 chargers.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

In theory it seems like using your EV to power your home is a good idea but I would opt for a stationary home battery. If you have your car powering your home and your home drains it, then your car is useless. If there is a power outage you would have to pick between having power at your house and going somewhere. The extra cycles would accelerate the battery wear although the model 3/y battery has 2170 cells and seems to have more cycles than older 1865 cells. In an emergency situation I think it would be helpful but for day to day use I think EV as home battery is not useful.

Thanks for the boots on the ground experience.
That looks like one more point for common sense reality, while Chuck's imaginary futuristic green utopia is still 0.