loomis2
Well-known member
So Friday night, for only the second time in my life and the first time in a few decades, I went to a drive-in movie theater. The first movie was Monsters University and the plan was for the family to sit outside and watch it. I hooked my mp3 player with an fm tuner to a speaker and plugged that into my car using an inverter plugged into the 12v adapter in the car.
I ended up taking our Prius instead of the Leaf because I didn't know what five hours of movies (it was a double feature) would do to the Leaf battery. For the second movie we sat in the car and listened through the car's speakers.
So that is my question. Would I have been perfectly fine taking the Leaf to something like that? Would the whole inverter thing put too much of a strain on the system for that length of time? Does it use the battery pack at all for something like that, or is that what the traditional car battery is for? Since this is a different sort of electric car scenario than normal I thought I would pose the question to you guys in case we do it again. With the Prius, whenever the battery power was low the engine would kick on for a few minutes to charge it back up. That was kind of annoying, so I would much rather take the Leaf next time, you know?
I ended up taking our Prius instead of the Leaf because I didn't know what five hours of movies (it was a double feature) would do to the Leaf battery. For the second movie we sat in the car and listened through the car's speakers.
So that is my question. Would I have been perfectly fine taking the Leaf to something like that? Would the whole inverter thing put too much of a strain on the system for that length of time? Does it use the battery pack at all for something like that, or is that what the traditional car battery is for? Since this is a different sort of electric car scenario than normal I thought I would pose the question to you guys in case we do it again. With the Prius, whenever the battery power was low the engine would kick on for a few minutes to charge it back up. That was kind of annoying, so I would much rather take the Leaf next time, you know?