Better heed those warnings!
Tesla gas can...
- Thread starter JeffKeryk
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Frunk.Lesson learned ... keep a generator full of gas in the trunk.
This is why I like range extended EV's like the i3 and Volt.
JHZR2
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Agree. Use the infrastructure we have and make more ideal use of the resources we have too... Including the benefits of fossil fuels.
Too bad stupid laws undermine doing the smartest thing.
I've been driving a lot this past year. I've seen 3 Tesla cars on the side of the highway in the last week. I do think people are running them out of juice.
Just like people running out of gas - pushing the absolute limits well after the car starts sending you warnings. I have gone into turtle mode once on my E-Golf and managed to make it to a charging station with 2 miles range remaining.
Hey triple A I`ve got an idea for you.
just waiting on emergency battery packs to appear, shaped as jerry cans...
Everyone knows there's 30 minutes of power left after it says it's empty. Am I right? Whoops...
A good idea will be to pull a small trailer w/ a nice Honda generator and fuel. You can provide services to EV's on the road and make some mula!
Put vents in the trunk and install generator.
I'm thinking you need about 3killowatts to go down the road?
I'm thinking you need about 3killowatts to go down the road?
Funny but scary if you think about it. Talk about inducing range anxiety, put that pic up in a car dealership for a real gut buster.
I wouldn't get so lucky as to run out of juice on a road with a huge shoulder. It'd happen to me on an expressway, or a bridge.
Tesla gas can. LOL. I didn't know what to expect when I saw the title. I figured someone was holding a couple of d-cell batteries up to the 'fuel' door.
Tesla gas can. LOL. I didn't know what to expect when I saw the title. I figured someone was holding a couple of d-cell batteries up to the 'fuel' door.
The amount of emissions that generator put out in an hour is more than a comparable gas engined car put out in a year.
That's just not so with modern, catalyst equipped small engines. In fact, all non-road engines (that includes all sorts of industrial sources) only account for 2% of CO2 and 17% of VOC's. VOC's being unburned hydrocarbons. More interestingly, the fitting of catalysts reduces the VOC's by a factor of 3 to 10. Furthermore, quite a bit of the VOC's come from the fuel tank and fueling procedures.
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A while back I was heading into town and got behind a Tesla S driving very slowly with his flashers on. He turned into a Shell station(!) and parked it, out of charge. I talked to a clerk the next day and he said the car stayed there for several hours and was towed by the owner to a charging station.