A photo shared at least 75 000 times on facebook allegedly shows a diesel van towing a petrol generator in order to charge an electric car.
Electric car charging station diesel generator.
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The daily kanban went to tesla s battery swap location at harris ranch calif.
Back in september we bought a generac gp2200i unit and tried to charge up our tesla.
The future is stupid reads the text above the photo.
Written by joanne nova.
Use mobile fuel truck with calibrated meter to refuel chargepod to 38mm from filler neck.
A gas powered van towing a diesel generator charging an electric car.
Most evs in australia are running on fossil fuel the generators are just hidden behind longer extension cords.
Find a place to plug in your electric car ev with plugshare s database of over 300 000 charging stations.
Ones that carry 240 000v.
What s powering the electric car charging station.
Filmed by edward niedermeyer on 5 22 2015 at harris ranch ca reads the description.
But what s the difference.
Published on august 8 2019.
Shared on facebook more than 74 000 times since aug.
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Bishop hill points us to this video of the tesla supercharging station at the harris ranch exit of interstate 5 in california.
Change subsequent cars and repeat recordings.
Electric car owners carry a chip about not being able to drive across the country as any real car owner could.
Which is off the interstate 5 and found several model s electric cars using battery charging stations powered by diesel generators.
Complete all 10 cars then shut down.
Start charging car record start and finish battery car s average kwh consumption rate kwh added to car session start and finish times.
It s no accident that the australian mining industry is now moving quickly from diesel generated electricity to solar power for their large remote operations.
Teslas charging off a diesel generator behind the harris ranch battery swap station.
While the austrian roadside assistance association that owns the mobile charging station in the photo confirmed to afp it relies mostly on diesel vehicles to tow its batteries it said the generator is a lithium.
This notable exception of a diesel powered remote ev charging station aside the reality is that remote ev charging stations will be powered by solar pv generators with battery storage.
It s becoming a joke all around the world the evs in australia powered by dirty diesel.
What s powering the electric car charging station.