NovoCasGreeny
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But less range due to towing a very heavy trailor with load
Very true, around 1 ton for the panels and inverters plus a few hundred kgs for the trailer. Maybe a 25% increase in weight. Significant reduction in range!!
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But less range due to towing a very heavy trailor with load
I'd love to see Tesla produce a trailer, basically an 90kWh battery on wheels with solar panels at different angles
to catch the sun as you're driving long distances, sure the panels would only trickle charge but having 2-90kWh
batteries would give 800k + daily range.
The problem with this idea is that the range of the car would be drastically reduced by the extra power needed to tow the trailer.I'd love to see Tesla produce a trailer, basically an 90kWh battery on wheels with solar panels at different angles
to catch the sun as you're driving long distances, sure the panels would only trickle charge but having 2-90kWh
batteries would give 800k + daily range.
HA - but there's still Simon Hacket's method of doing the Darwin/Adelaide trip in a Tesla.So who is going to suggest the on-board generator option first
Yep, and his method pretty much explains why a generator wont fit in the boot or froot.HA - but there's still Simon Hacket's method of doing the Darwin/Adelaide trip in a Tesla.
I think he was trying to demonstrate that regular high powered chargers make electric cars long range....but using an ICE to prove it was a touch ironic.The words -- Atomic Bomb and Ant -- seem to occur in connection with that effort. Not even proof of concept. For a bright guy I'm not quite sure what he was thinking, but for publicity (I guess that was a good thing).
Pretty nifty; now to get an X and a trailer of panels...Ray, saw this video and thought of your thread. A more aerodynamic model and this could be a winner. 18 kW could be a reasonably quick charge.