Portable Gas Generator to Charge the Lightning?

[Tony Burgh]

That’s just a patent for a really expensive portable generator.

Very broad patent. Probably intended to prevent other more specific patents from locking Ford out of bed generator to charge system market.

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[VTbuckeye]

I managed to run out of electricity AND gas one time in my Volt. It actually lets you run for a bit on the “depleted” battery after you run out of gas, but apparently not that far.

I wanted to know the actual fuel capacity of my xc90 phev. I ran out of gas, though I had plenty of charge remaining. It limited the already limited (87hp) electric power once the fuel supply was exhausted. Turns out the 13.2 gallon tank actually takes 14.2 to completely refill.

 

[Tony Burgh]

I don’t think most portable generators would approach 20% efficiency. It gets even worse at partial load.

Looking at Harbor Freight 9500/7600 watt inverter generator, the efficiency comes out about 15% for gasoline energy content to delivered electrical energy.
Yep, about 20 hours at full tilt boogie to get complete charge and damaged generator.

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