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YouTuber puts gas generator in Tesla so he doesn’t have to plug it in on road trip
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By Joe Harker, 8 June 2023
Matt Mikka, who goes by the name Warped Perception on YouTube, last year decided to modify his Tesla and add in a gas generator which could charge up the car while on the move.
He then decided to take his Tesla Model S on an 1,800 mile journey with the self-imposed challenge that he wasn’t allowed to stop off at any electric car charging points along the way.
Mike told Insider he’d spent five years planning the journey, with a year and a half of that occupied by designing the gas generator so it’d fit into his Tesla and charge the batteries.
He figured out how to have his ‘cordless Tesla’ be charging even while parked up, so the battery would be getting juice while on the move and at other times as well.
In the end he made it all the way with his Tesla, making it 1,395 miles further than the car’s recommended range to reach his finish line.
He’s who Charles Lindbergh would have been, if Lindbergh had been a lumbersexual electrician. What lessons did we learn, other than “just buy a hybrid”?
…Matt did have to stop at a gas station along the way to refuel his generator.
He also had to stop his car for around five to six hours a day so the gas generator could charge the battery.
Matt also ran into trouble with the police at one point as he was pulled over for driving too slowly on the highway while trying to cut down on the Tesla’s energy consumption.
On top of that the gas generator is pretty noisy which makes for an annoying factor during a trip, and it’s thirsty enough that any environmental benefit accrued from driving an electric car was wiped out.
In the end, Matt admitted the modified car was ‘basically useless’ as it still needed plenty of time sitting around waiting to be charged up by the gas generator.
Sometimes you’ve got to fail to succeed.
Sometimes you’ve got to drive a Tesla to appreciate a truck.
“On top of that the gas generator is pretty noisy which makes for an annoying factor during a trip, and it’s thirsty enough that any environmental benefit accrued from driving an electric car was wiped out.”
Journalists… Sheesh. The author is no physicist, because he doesn’t understand the full implications of what the laws of thermodynamics say about Mr. Mikka’s little science experiment. (Yes, I am paraphrasing the Chaotician from “Jurrasic Park”, Malcolm, played by Jeff Gaybloom.)
The benefit was not just ‘wiped out’. It was reversed significantly. Second law of thermodynamics and all that. IC engines are LESS efficient than the electrical grid and the utility plants that power the grid. He actually used MORE energy than he would have with an unmodified Tesla!
In other words, he accrued environmental depletion.
Ah, Warped Perception at his Finest! I love this guy. He’s the guy that made me realize how sweet is the sound of a turbocharged lawnmower engine under heavy load and high boost (hint: it sounds awesome).
The Germans had a methane powered VW but you didn’t want to be driving behind it.
Power and control is what the climate hysteria is about and forming of the new religion along with rainbow rumpranger bathhouse gloryhole flags for the GAE.
You’ll own nothing but heel and toe sandals in the fifteen minute concentration camp cities and the cricket kebabs taste like turds.
Don’t forget booster number 4455 kulak untermenschen shirker.