Exactly what I wanted to see tested! I have a hookup to my home via an inlet with this exact generator. Seems like I'll be able to do ~20A and charge if the power ever goes out. Thanks for the video!
It's a GREAT idea. Predator 5000 is 120 and you can throw it in your trunk. You could get a bigger one, but 240 is 5x more and I'm not sure if they will fit in your trunk.
I track my Tesla and it is hard to find chargering stations near many of the locations where we race. This will be great to add ot my trailer so I can top off my Tesla between driving sessions.
It’s not the volts alone that set the time of charge for the car, it’s the available amps, watts, that set the speed of the charge. Max amps on 120 volts is 20 amps, 2400 watts max at the wall or generator outlet. Max amps, typical on 240 volts, 50 amp outlet is 12000 watts. Big difference.
I saw one here on You Tube where the guy bought another identical battery pack , mounted it on a trailer and wired it in such a way as it parallels the car's battery effectively doubling its range and then had an on board 15Kw generator to charge it up effectively making it a hybrid. It worked . I think he bypassed thr charging port when hooking the second battery in it. He even had the cooling system for the battery installed also.
I used my camping inverter generator. It's a 120V and running is 2100 watts. Needed a ground bonding plug and with the 120V adapter at the 12 amp max (1440 watts) on my Model Y I got 4-5 miles of range charged per hour.
I have a question. If a tesla is dead and stranded on the side of road and needs charge. How much time will i have to wait until i at least get 15-20miles of driving with the little generator? And also same question with the big generator? Your knowledge will really help me out.
He showed it in the video. The Tesla was charging at 18 miles per hour. Meaning it was recouping 18miles worth of charge per hour it's on the charger on the big one (14 on the small one). So for 20 miles. An hour to an hour and a half.
Make the generator a little larger. Design it to directly drive the cars gearing. We could call it the internal combustion engine. Maybe one day in the future we will have the tech to do this.
PHEV is much better, a guy on here bought a $220 1500W inverter, installed it in back area of 2024 Wrangler, and was able to run his fridge, TV and a lot of lights in his house. He could run a coffee maker in his Jeep while his TV monitor and Apple TV WERE ON! $220! So it could be used for camping, or at home if the power was out. Jeep to the rescue. With factory front and rear lockers, and a 100 to 1 crawl ratio, and 2000 lbs. lighter, will easily out-climb a CyberTruck.
Grid will usually be much cheaper. Around TX we get around12 to 14 cents a kWh so to charge the car from zero to full would be around $10 to $12. To charge the car from a generator from 0 to 300 miles would take around 15 hours and go through two tanks of gas or around 14 gallons of fuel. To fill it up with the generator at $2.50 a gallon gas would be around $35. This would give Tesla around 21 mpg when charging off the Generator. Not bad but charging from the generator would be for non normal situations like when the grid is down or if you are out camping where no electricity was available.
Normal cars already have that. It's called an engine or motor😂. Best thing is you need only a tiny battery to start this generator, saving a ton of weight.
Personally I would go for the small inverter & only use enough to get me to the nearest super charger. Emergency only gen 🌞 looking forward to my Cyber truck🌞
Thank you for this test, 9-10 hours for a full charge is a long time. I was wanting to know this information for evacuating during a hurricane. Was considering loading up some propane tanks and the generator but by the time I get the car charge Ill be in the middle of the storm.
I live in Florida and I just got my m3. I was worried myself but no longer am. I have my electrical hooked up to my house and it's always ready before the night is over . Knowing that a generator would fully power my tesla in an emergency over night is perfect.
No because inverter generators are much more stable than older standard generators. I ran my PC and cable modem off of my 8.8kw inverter generator (along with some lights and my fridge) during a localized outage. And Ive done the same in bigger outages using my cellphone as a hotspot.
We'd like to get an EV in the near future, but this is why I'm still going to keep a gas vehicle, too. Rather than burning fuel to charge, I can just hop in a gas vehicle and use it if needed.
It is no different than running the battery all the way fown , THEN calling a diesel towtruck with a diesel generator to recharge it with. That charge will cost $1,500.00 . LOL
Well the energy has to come from a PURE Sine Wave inverter/generator. An unwritten rule is 80% max capacity for generators for surges/other. Really for peak efficiency, most gas generators are capped to 50% max efficiency. At -about 3 miles/KWH after efficiency losses converting the power through the charger. That gives you about 10 miles of charge per hour. This truly is a last resort. If a Tesla Battery pack is 80KWH, expect about a 24+ hour charge time minimum.
Of course it will!!!! It's not against the laws of physics!!!! But it takes either GASOLINE or DIESEL FUEL to RUN the generator, depending on what sort of generator you are using!!!! Can you dig that!!!!!!????
What happens when you run out of gas for your generators?? If you say go to the gas station to fill up fuel cans just do the same for gas powered vehicle
Petrol has much higher energy density than batteries even after inefficiencies you travel significantly further with backup fuel tank than carrying extra batteries.
Chevy Bolt EV keeps its cost low by having slower-charging circuitry than its more expensive competition. You basically compared the fastest charging EV with the slowest charging EV on the market.
thanks for the video, this is great video, however you can save all this hassle of so many hours of charging an EV can be saved buy owning a gasoline car. in 15 minutes you can drive to the a Gas station fill up your tank and go back home and do much more… EV’s aren’t ready yet.
You realize most people charge when they are at home doing nothing? Like after work pull into garage plug in and go about the rest of their day and in the morning unplug and drive off? Total time plug in 5 secs? Another 5 secs to unplug and drive off to work? You are not filling a tank of gas that quick.
So at 18 mph. In ten hours you would have 180 miles available. Wouldn’t that need about ten gallons of gas for that larger generator? Or you could put 10 gallons into a Toyota Camry and go approximately 300 miles in no more than 10 minutes….. I do like this video though. Thank you.
I'm thinking maybe I would just buy a gas car, wouldn't have to do all that crap, you do see the irony in charging an EV with a gas powered generator, don't you?
You are making irony where there is none. People don’t buy teslas to not use gas, they buy teslas to reduce the amount of gas you need to burn and purchase. Every single person I know that drives a teslas saves hundreds if not thousands of dollars on gas. I drive a truck and the mpg is atrocious. I spend roughly 300 a work week on fuel, my buddy that drives a Tesla spent roughly 70 bucks charging his Tesla at home. You have been spoon fed lies and suffer from the inability to adapt and learn new things.
Im no expert on the subject so please don't laugh at me but couldn't you install a belt driven generator on your car off the axle or something and charge on the go just asking
This tesla don't have charge on the go i think.. Imagine using mobile phone while in charge.. Maybe those teslas batteries might blow using that belt. Also u need alternator to charge the battery not just a belt.. With weight and so on.. Just too unreliable
@@michaeljordan5972 because not reliable and not energy saving.. Using belt and alternator excess so much energy out. To start the alternator also use batery..
@@silvergaurchannel9609 well once again I'm no expert in the field but I think they can make it work if they wanted to I'm sure it's not that simple but I think they could do it if they wanted to
This electric shit is stupid. You buy an electric vehicle because of emissions but run a gas generator to charge it. Seems legit and intelligent at the same time.
This wouldnt work if you had to preheat the battery first on the side of the road miles away from anyone in freezing temps you would die but whi would carry a gas generator in their Ev their too efficient 😂
Exactly what I wanted to see tested! I have a hookup to my home via an inlet with this exact generator. Seems like I'll be able to do ~20A and charge if the power ever goes out. Thanks for the video!
It's a GREAT idea. Predator 5000 is 120 and you can throw it in your trunk. You could get a bigger one, but 240 is 5x more and I'm not sure if they will fit in your trunk.
I track my Tesla and it is hard to find chargering stations near many of the locations where we race. This will be great to add ot my trailer so I can top off my Tesla between driving sessions.
Or just stick to a petrol car instead?
Don’t let people see it or your car will be the next anti-EV haters meme
For the Volt the default set up is 8 amp , you have to manually change it to 12 amp in the menu
It’s not the volts alone that set the time of charge for the car, it’s the available amps, watts, that set the speed of the charge. Max amps on 120 volts is 20 amps, 2400 watts max at the wall or generator outlet. Max amps, typical on 240 volts, 50 amp outlet is 12000 watts. Big difference.
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I saw one here on You Tube where the guy bought another identical battery pack , mounted it on a trailer and wired it in such a way as it parallels the car's battery effectively doubling its range and then had an on board 15Kw generator to charge it up effectively making it a hybrid.
It worked .
I think he bypassed thr charging port when hooking the second battery in it.
He even had the cooling system for the battery installed also.
I used my camping inverter generator. It's a 120V and running is 2100 watts. Needed a ground bonding plug and with the 120V adapter at the 12 amp max (1440 watts) on my Model Y I got 4-5 miles of range charged per hour.
chuck a trailer on the tesla and use it to charge while you drive.
How? when u charging tesla will not let u place vehicle in any gear
So basically turn it into a hybrid lol
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That definitely will stress and destroy the batteries. That's why the car OS blocks the car from being operated while it's charging.
"lets see if we can arc weld this to the ground" That's violation on GM 😂😂😂
I have a question. If a tesla is dead and stranded on the side of road and needs charge. How much time will i have to wait until i at least get 15-20miles of driving with the little generator? And also same question with the big generator? Your knowledge will really help me out.
He showed it in the video. The Tesla was charging at 18 miles per hour. Meaning it was recouping 18miles worth of charge per hour it's on the charger on the big one (14 on the small one). So for 20 miles. An hour to an hour and a half.
Make the generator a little larger. Design it to directly drive the cars gearing. We could call it the internal combustion engine. Maybe one day in the future we will have the tech to do this.
PHEV is much better, a guy on here bought a $220 1500W inverter, installed it in back area of 2024 Wrangler, and was able to run his fridge, TV and a lot of lights in his house. He could run a coffee maker in his Jeep while his TV monitor and Apple TV WERE ON! $220!
So it could be used for camping, or at home if the power was out. Jeep to the rescue. With factory front and rear lockers, and a 100 to 1 crawl ratio, and 2000 lbs. lighter, will easily out-climb a CyberTruck.
Chevy Volt is love. It should be fine pulling 240v 16-ish Amps
What is the difference cost between generator and grid?
Grid will usually be much cheaper. Around TX we get around12 to 14 cents a kWh so to charge the car from zero to full would be around $10 to $12. To charge the car from a generator from 0 to 300 miles would take around 15 hours and go through two tanks of gas or around 14 gallons of fuel. To fill it up with the generator at $2.50 a gallon gas would be around $35. This would give Tesla around 21 mpg when charging off the Generator. Not bad but charging from the generator would be for non normal situations like when the grid is down or if you are out camping where no electricity was available.
What will they think of next? Build the generator in the car?
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Normal cars already have that. It's called an engine or motor😂. Best thing is you need only a tiny battery to start this generator, saving a ton of weight.
2023 people charging electric cars with gas-powered engines...
It's really going to rock your world when you find out how gas pumps run.
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elon didnt think to put a solar panel on the cars smh
wait...
Charging an EV on gas the few times a year you lose power makes more sense than using an ICE on a daily basis
How did you bond your neutral?
Personally I would go for the small inverter & only use enough to get me to the nearest super charger. Emergency only gen 🌞 looking forward to my Cyber truck🌞
In the "bread line" scenario mentioned at the beginning of the video, I'm guessing their will be a VERY long line at the nearest super charger. :)
cybertruck will need about 2x more electricity to cover same distance compared to model 3 it looks like. Larger generator recommended.
This is the most hilarious video I have watched on youtube.
Why?
yeah i go deep in the bush and can charge my tesla on $10 of
gas
Thank you for this test, 9-10 hours for a full charge is a long time. I was wanting to know this information for evacuating during a hurricane. Was considering loading up some propane tanks and the generator but by the time I get the car charge Ill be in the middle of the storm.
I live in florida and am thinking the exact same thing it sucks because I really wanted a Tesla but this is seriously making me reconsider-
I live in Florida and I just got my m3. I was worried myself but no longer am. I have my electrical hooked up to my house and it's always ready before the night is over . Knowing that a generator would fully power my tesla in an emergency over night is perfect.
@erikescalet-villalta2106 Be sure to load up your trunk and frunk with with as much fuel and oil as possible, cuz you're gonna need it.
yeah youd need an immense amount of power to supercharge, best bet it to use the supercharger stations
In theory you should have a day or two or 3 warning .. so charge up your car to 100% before you lose power and then use the generator from there.
Great video Guys!
Loving this content please keep it coming 🎉
You guys should do Cybertruck generator charging test
Will it loose its battery warranty due to charging from a generator? Since the generator power is unstable and the car is sensitive for it!😊
No because this info would not be disclosed….
No because inverter generators are much more stable than older standard generators. I ran my PC and cable modem off of my 8.8kw inverter generator (along with some lights and my fridge) during a localized outage. And Ive done the same in bigger outages using my cellphone as a hotspot.
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We can use the hot weather to charge it and cool the city at the same time and in emergency we can use gas stove or trash burning and ok
We'd like to get an EV in the near future, but this is why I'm still going to keep a gas vehicle, too. Rather than burning fuel to charge, I can just hop in a gas vehicle and use it if needed.
How long does a gallon of gas cost with the smaller unit.
Shoulda gotten Tesla certified Honda generator 😂😂😂😂😂😂
What is the gas milege of this?
I think it ends up being 20 miles per gallon with the big generator. It consumes about a gallon of gas per hour.
How much gas or propane per hour?
This is great!! Where did you get the “plug” that runs from the gen to mobile connector? Link pls? Tia
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Find the size generator that will fully charge your car on one tank of fuel.
Tow behind diesel generator? LOL
It is no different than running the battery all the way fown , THEN calling a diesel towtruck with a diesel generator to recharge it with.
That charge will cost $1,500.00 .
LOL
What charger do you have that doesn't care you're not grounded?
So, no jumpers needed?
Tesla needs to work on the charge times this is def good idea would def keep a genny in the trunk
Can you drive while charging?
NO!!!
Probably need to mount 4 generators on the roof running at same time to able to make this work
@@bambooindark1 Lets Do it, Find the way to shrink the 4 generator, and we will have unlimited charge 😊😊😁😁
How much does a 5 gallon gas can cost?
About how many gallons of gas do you need to charge a tesla?
Thanks for saving the environment!!!
Why do you need an inverter generator? Why couldn’t I use my 30kw whole house generator to charge it?
Volt was close to full charge. It slows near full charge
Never mind it was half charge
The noise of the generator will attract attention, in the end of the world situation you’re a goner unless you have a fortress
If going on a road trip, why not RENT a 50KW diesel genset on a trailer to just pull behind you?
What's the point of using diesel/gasoline generators to charge an electric car? How does that help to lower greenhouse gas emissions?
Who said it was?
😅😅😅. Gotta go to the gas station to get you EV charged.
How long will it take to charge with a champion 7500 watt inverter generator? i'm assuming 40 miles per hour?
Well the energy has to come from a PURE Sine Wave inverter/generator. An unwritten rule is 80% max capacity for generators for surges/other. Really for peak efficiency, most gas generators are capped to 50% max efficiency.
At -about 3 miles/KWH after efficiency losses converting the power through the charger. That gives you about 10 miles of charge per hour.
This truly is a last resort. If a Tesla Battery pack is 80KWH, expect about a 24+ hour charge time minimum.
how about 1 inverter of 2000w , plus lifepo4 24v 200ah in the trunk? That is 4KWh++ of emergency charging
You might get one mile of charging out of it. And that’s a maybe.
That is too cool, if got a week to charge😂
Of course it will!!!! It's not against the laws of physics!!!! But it takes either GASOLINE or DIESEL FUEL to RUN the generator, depending on what sort of generator you are using!!!! Can you dig that!!!!!!????
What happens when you run out of gas for your generators??
If you say go to the gas station to fill up fuel cans just do the same for gas powered vehicle
Petrol has much higher energy density than batteries even after inefficiencies you travel significantly further with backup fuel tank than carrying extra batteries.
5:51 this! Lol
Chevy Bolt EV keeps its cost low by having slower-charging circuitry than its more expensive competition.
You basically compared the fastest charging EV with the slowest charging EV on the market.
0:38 i think you completely contradicted yourself there
Question still stands. It can charge a electric car. How long to charge half charge. Full charge time. Not miles.
thanks for the video, this is great video, however you can save all this hassle of so many hours of charging an EV can be saved buy owning a gasoline car. in 15 minutes you can drive to the a Gas station fill up your tank and go back home and do much more… EV’s aren’t ready yet.
You realize most people charge when they are at home doing nothing? Like after work pull into garage plug in and go about the rest of their day and in the morning unplug and drive off? Total time plug in 5 secs? Another 5 secs to unplug and drive off to work? You are not filling a tank of gas that quick.
So at 18 mph. In ten hours you would have 180 miles available. Wouldn’t that need about ten gallons of gas for that larger generator?
Or you could put 10 gallons into a Toyota Camry and go approximately 300 miles in no more than 10 minutes….. I do like this video though. Thank you.
Generator burns 1 gallon every 10 hours (diesel ones).
So 2 gallons or 90MPG
That’s impressive. I have a 10k industrial generator/welder. It’s about one gallon of gasoline per hour.
u need a 30KW 72 amp @ 220V, then convert that to 440V 30 amps, your load can't exceed 80%, then u will see it will charge tesla in less than 1 hour.
For that price and weight, I will just get a RAM range extender truck.
I'm thinking maybe I would just buy a gas car, wouldn't have to do all that crap, you do see the irony in charging an EV with a gas powered generator, don't you?
Its for emergency or when you go somewhere you know there wont a charger around
You are making irony where there is none. People don’t buy teslas to not use gas, they buy teslas to reduce the amount of gas you need to burn and purchase. Every single person I know that drives a teslas saves hundreds if not thousands of dollars on gas. I drive a truck and the mpg is atrocious. I spend roughly 300 a work week on fuel, my buddy that drives a Tesla spent roughly 70 bucks charging his Tesla at home. You have been spoon fed lies and suffer from the inability to adapt and learn new things.
Now put the generator inside the car and start driving while ots charging, will it work?😂
Blow ur batteries like phone
clear as mud.
Im no expert on the subject so please don't laugh at me but couldn't you install a belt driven generator on your car off the axle or something and charge on the go just asking
This tesla don't have charge on the go i think.. Imagine using mobile phone while in charge.. Maybe those teslas batteries might blow using that belt. Also u need alternator to charge the battery not just a belt.. With weight and so on.. Just too unreliable
@@silvergaurchannel9609 well duh that's exactly what I said a belt driven generator I can't imagine why it won't work
@@michaeljordan5972 because not reliable and not energy saving.. Using belt and alternator excess so much energy out. To start the alternator also use batery..
@@silvergaurchannel9609 well once again I'm no expert in the field but I think they can make it work if they wanted to I'm sure it's not that simple but I think they could do it if they wanted to
@@michaeljordan5972 okey2.. Maybe someday.. But i think the easier way using solar..
What's the inverter you need
My Tesla charge light goes red and won't charge. I think it's because the floating neutral ground
Es gracioso cargando el carro eléctrico on gasolina ⛽️
couldnt you just buy an inverter and plug that into the generator?
Oxymoron! gas generator for an electric car
Why in God sake battery are being called "generator" these days??? It's so deceptive.
This electric shit is stupid. You buy an electric vehicle because of emissions but run a gas generator to charge it. Seems legit and intelligent at the same time.
Why don't EV car makers pun a generator in their cars?
They did back in the early 90s. Look it up. The government bought all of them off the people that bought them.
and they went to ban those too :\
This wouldnt work if you had to preheat the battery first on the side of the road miles away from anyone in freezing temps you would die but whi would carry a gas generator in their Ev their too efficient 😂
just put the gas in the car.....oooooohhhhhhh
LOL this guy can barely breathe while talking in the car.
La razón de tener un tesla es para no usar ⛽️
No Matter What old Fuels Are the only Source to Charge this Waste of time! No thank you to EV
End of the world and you worry how to charge tesla
Such a waste 🗑 😂😅😊
This is getting stupid EV just don’t work for what it was meant to be use for
The Fat Takers
Using gas to charge electric. So what’s the point?
Only for emergency situation or blackouts!
@@eastonlee5102 Haha If their a Blackout Gas Station Can't Pump Gas!
EVs are ridiculous. Virtue signaling vanity fair.
Funny thing is still need gas. Just get a real car....
You ain’t never lied! I just bought a ev and I regret it every day
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Charging electric cars with fossil fuel generators….
This is the type of video that really puts people off EV's. So much faffing about….
What I if you don't have gass
dumbest content on the entirety of the internet award goes to.....Alexander Doroftei
Very informative and funny video. Tell that hobo he needs to ditch his Chevy and buy a Tesla with 20% apr. 🥱🥱🥱
LOL🤣🤣