Ingineer
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Piss poor mileage, and it stinks too, but in a pinch it'll get you home!
SteveInSeattle said:This can't work.. the car has a 100 mile range, so at 35 miles per hour it will drain the battery in 3 hours. However, at 110v it takes over 12 hours to recharge-- so common sense dictates that the draw on the battery is much greater than the rate of recharge.
LTLFTcomposite said:So it has been confirmed that you can run the L1 Leaf charger on an EU-2000? Does it work OK on a continuous basis without overloading the generator? What is the run time for 1 gallon of gas?
So that equates to roughly 21MPG. And, assuming you could defeat the interlock, you could actually drive it home if you were to stay under 5MPH the whole time.Ingineer said:It will run about 4 hours on a gallon of gas giving you almost 5kWh of charge.
cdub said:That seems like death by carbon monoxide poisoning just waiting to happen.
SteveInSeattle said:This can't work.. the car has a 100 mile range, so at 35 miles per hour it will drain the battery in 3 hours. However, at 110v it takes over 12 hours to recharge-- so common sense dictates that the draw on the battery is much greater than the rate of recharge.
garygid said:This is really intended for emergency charging only.
Moving the generator outside the car to do the charging is easy.
Dealing with gasoline fumes inside the car all the rest of the time is much more difficult.
GeekEV said:I've had similar thoughts myself. It would be awesome if there were a way to rig it directly into the charger hump in the back and to defeat the interlock so you can run it while the car is in motion... It's a DIY Chevy Volt! :lol:
Get on that ASAP, would you please Phil? You seem to be the pre-eminent LEAF hacker at the moment! As for the emissions, just run a sealed vent tube out the rear window or something.
So that equates to roughly 21MPG. And, assuming you could defeat the interlock, you could actually drive it home if you were to stay under 5MPH the whole time.Ingineer said:It will run about 4 hours on a gallon of gas giving you almost 5kWh of charge.
I think you would be better to add a hitch and cargo carrier to the rear.GeekEV said:As for the emissions, just run a sealed vent tube out the rear window or something.
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