for our next test we are going to test the honda eu2000i versus the generac I
q2000 charging none other than a tesla model s
yes I know it's sacrilege charging a lot of my electric car off of gas
however if you're off grid camping and you don't have a way to plug in or you
know you don't plan things out too well and you find you're stuck in the middle
of the freeway
you know a generator might be a good alternative to a toad specially since
the generator would end up costing about as much of it as a tough one
so let's see which one does a better job of charging a model s so i'm going to go
over we're going to do the honda first and now i do have
both generators are currently running so the noise level you here
- the diesel truck that's driving past is both units going and we're about it
was about 15 feet away you think
yeah about 15 feet away so let's start with the honda
now for the tests were going to turn off the cart
turkey
power demand of the car
greater to keep up
in actuality the honda will not be able to charge the car
back at the most
you're writing something because we're getting the four flashes of do what does
that mean
no brown present
now technically
call the heck plug your generator and charging we can make a little adapter
plug that bridges the ground and the neutral with the resistor
that allows the UMC to detect that the ground is present and
functional as of right now
thanks
behind the generator is not grounded which
technically that is
hi the generator
design
grounded to the actual
generac as that however the general act
it also has a built-in
Bridge to the ground
critically solve that issue
yeah
able to test the honda let's move over to the general act
see you want to see is both laugh
solid green ready light so that means we should be good to go for charging
just put her on turtle
generac on terminal
let's plug in the model s and see what we get
how about that the car didn't even get to give me a chance to get in here
before it started as charging sequence car is currently charging at five amps
at a hundred and twenty two volts
this is off the generac now when you want it when you start your car charging
off on one of these portable generators you want to start at the lowest average
possible that gives the generator a chance to catch up and stabilize with
the loans given once it stabilized like it is now then you can gradually
increase your charge rate and since this is the same as product and technically
is like charging off of a hundred twenty-four outlet
we're going to just do the slider to fifty percent so that way the remaining
charge time you know updates a little quicker because once it goes past 24
hours
it just says 24 + hours so at 6am it will take quite a while now remember
this isn't something you're gonna be doing on a regular basis
this is going to be something for an emergency or off-road in the middle of
nowhere type charging
seven
eight
9 and the general is keeping up
very impressive turning up the voltage wonder just a little bit
11 and drop and 12 12 app and a hundred and twenty volts that means we're at
about one thousand four hundred and forty watts being drawn right now and
this number here takes just a little while to catch up with the actual so
that's delayed that's not much that works for Siri
so we're going to open remote s because i'll give us just slightly more details
current average charge rate is actually one . 80 miles per hour is actually
going up like I said those numbers are averaged and if we let this go
this will actually top out at about 3.2 miles per hour and for the fastest
charging you want to exit the vehicle
so the Sun center screams and the rest of the vehicle goes into a sleep mode
and all that would be left active would be the charging circuits so we can go
back to the future Marty
god I'm sorry that's time circuits now you could squeeze a few more answers out
of it if you were to use the 20 amp plug but i do not recommend it as its this is
going to be a sustained low for a long period of time
you don't want to go too hard on a generator now
also keep in mind this generator is not even broken have less than one hour run
time since setting it up so now that we got that stabilized take five hours and
20 minutes to get from forty four percent to fifty percent which usually
all you need is three to 10 miles if you're completely empty to make it to
the nearest plug on me
it's not very often we going to be that far away from civilization where you can
even plug into anything at all
so what's out let's move on
No
see what the generator has to say about all this
there's my current time
fuel
indicator light says we're using approximately
eighty percent of our generation capacity
and we have at this load approximately
two hours in 34 minutes
run time remaining
I didn't calculate it up earlier
and if you have exactly one gallon of fuel
you will be getting the
Linda of approximately
15 miles per gallon
go up or down
by approximately three miles per gallon
depending on ambient temperatures
actually you anywhere from 12
18 miles per gallon
if charging solely office Generac generator
which is not bad considering that's just slightly less than what
similarly sized one reason and
see what happened so
we turn the engine down to standard
yeah
real difference in runtime
engine RPMs about the same yet
was turned down see if the economy makes a difference
it does i heard the intended to throttle down slightly
noticeably
the the noise level has dropped
you could
runtime actually went up
two hours 36 minutes
mind you I did not have a full team
I've been playing with this for a while this morning and I loads
that's not bad
and now considering
we're using
approximately eighty percent of our generation capacity
let's just see what the noise level is as we walk away
that's about 10 feet
about 20 feet
about 40 feet and now considering that thing's running it pretty much max
almost max output a sustained output for that generator 1600 watts and we're
drawing
14 excuse me 1440 40 watts
we're pretty close for just about a hundred and sixty watts below maximum
output and it's that quiet and hopefully you guys can even hear me talking when
you're right next to it
so so far given its ability to actually charge a model s with nice clean
stable output power let's take another peek real quick
that's holding a nice study hundred twenty volts and direct out of Fox
ability to charge a model s i would have to rate
the generac I q2000 the ideal generator portable generator for emergency
electric vehicle use
the only way it could be better as if it had 2 40 or 220 volt output
now
if you are going to be say you have your nice shiny Model X and you're gonna be
towing a travel trailer and going on vacation
you might just have two of these why because that parallel operation you can
actually connect to the generac IQ to thousands together and doing so
doubles its output capacity so that 1600 watts state sustained capacity turns
into thirty two hundred watts
my math right
sixteen hundred times - 3200 yeah there we go
brain fart today so you can actually have thirty two hundred watt output
capacity using two of these and the optional parallel connection panel
plugging in the model us to that now just gives you six to eight miles per
hour
recharge so if you're going off grid with your Model X or even a model s
like Mike and teardrop travel trailer like I plan on for my adventure series
you might if you have the cash flow
have two of these
and double your power now you're living large off Griffin
smile cheese