anybody tried charging the nissan leaf from a small generator?...strikes me it would be a good idea to carry one and be able to charge up if you run out of juice....like carrying a gallon of petrol in the boot......
nissan leaf again
Oct 19, 2018
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or will it not charge because there is no ground? ....
What's the battery capacity? 20 kWh? So 4% of capacity after an hour from a typical small genny? Easier to carry a big diesel battery.
Or, if only they could tow ... you could have a friction driven generator in a trailer charging the battery as you drive! ;-)
Cheers, T i m
Nah! Put a windmill on the roof! :)
Now THAT is a brilliant idea. You should patent that! ;-)
The faster you go the further you can go! Free energy!
...and make the blades out of solar panels, and you can get other road users to pay you for the electricity that they generate.
Or a trailed generator big enough to drive the car for ever with a huge fuel tank behind the generator.
That then makes it a hybrid then? I wonder, do these cars change colour and fall off the road in autumn? Brian
I would think that its a bit like the lady who swallowed a spider. To charge it up fast enough you would need a fair sized generator or a smaller one running for a longer time.To do this you would need to also pack fuel for the generator to fill it up.... Brian
Oh no, no more perpetual motion machine threads please!
I guess you could have a wind turbine a water wheel and some solar cells while you were at it. Brian
I was thinking that there could be a cow in the back attached to an extractor so all the methane was captured and the run the generator on gas. Brian
What like 12V 120Ah? - That's 1.4kWh - good for about 5 miles if your lucky.
You do realise that you wreck the reading flow of every thread you post to? PLEASE DO NOT TOP POST!
Brian gets special dispensation: he is blind.
Apologies to Brian. I did not know. I'll bite my tonguei n future!
Andy
And the problem of converting the 12 volt into 360 volt or whatever.
OK .....
why can they not tow ? ....
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