Thread: Diesel Gen Pod for off grid EV Charging

Originally Posted by LRJim

Isn't towing the genset around the country behind an EV to recharge your batteries at night a bit of an oxymoron?
Wouldn't you be able to rig up some sort of greener generator for the same weight and size? Solar panels and battery bank or some wheel alternators or regen braking or some other crazy EV technology?
And how much diesel would you need to carry? 5l per night? 20l per night?
Cheers Jim

Yes Jim, you must know that im taking the **** !!

Originally Posted by cjc_td5

Awesome. Electric motoring all day, listen to a generator all night.... NOT.

Would prefer some sort of on board genetator setup that you run for say a couple of hours when motoring along to top for a few hours of electric only running.

Absolutely, I hate generators with a passion. A silent capstone type turbine generator would be acceptable.

The whole generator thing will be moot pretty soon, I read something the other day about non rechargable diamond batteries using nuclear waste that lasted 2,500 years , Now they would do a few circumnavigations of the country .

Originally Posted by goingbush

Yes Jim, you must know that im taking the **** !!

I didn't think it would be your style bush

really roughly....

1l of diesel equals about 3KVA for an hour. Thats based loosely off of what I was getting out of the 7kva genny on the work truck which was a big thumping single cylinder with a 22L tank. Its also about right(from old memory) for the 2.4kva single pot diesel I used to have for running compressors and small welders it had a 2.5l tank and averaged 6-7 hours between fills with the compressor running about 50% of the time or driving the welder/urn/coffee machine.

My piddly 2.4kva inverter petrol genny worked hard drinks its 5l in about 2 hours

Originally Posted by goingbush

Absolutely, I hate generators with a passion. A silent capstone type turbine generator would be acceptable.

The whole generator thing will be moot pretty soon, I read something the other day about non rechargable diamond batteries using nuclear waste that lasted 2,500 years , Now they would do a few circumnavigations of the country .

Haha, so all of the self declared greeny "Nuclear Free" shires would have to rescind their declarations in order to permit green vehicles to enter them?

Originally Posted by goingbush

Absolutely, I hate generators with a passion. A silent capstone type turbine generator would be acceptable.

The whole generator thing will be moot pretty soon, I read something the other day about non rechargable diamond batteries using nuclear waste that lasted 2,500 years , Now they would do a few circumnavigations of the country .

I hate generators too, but I work with the bloody things all day. People think I’d be just the right person to talk to about what to buy as a camping genset - my first response is I do everything with solar and batteries in my van include watch TV if that’s your thing, run a fan all night off the inverter, run a 90 litre fridge, charge devices. I’ve never run out. Short of running an AC in the van (which I get depending on where you’re at) I don’t see a use for one.

Using diesel to charge EVs in the outback is greener than you think | The Driven

Originally Posted by goingbush

Using diesel to charge EVs in the outback is greener than you think | The Driven

That tesla page where they organised generators around Australia had some good usage figures. The generators were very economical, way better than a diesel or petrol driving around Australia.
Cheers Jim