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Shep_Book t1_j9vbkso wrote

Reply to comment by Sea-Election-9168 in Kelley Stand is not plowed! No charging stations either! by SVTer

Honestly, you’d need a pretty big generator. In cold weather, you need at least a 2-3kw of power to warm the battery in cold conditions. Then, you’d be left with whatever extra headroom you have from the generator to charge. So, a pretty big 4-5kw generator might get you 1-2kw of charge per hour.

A Model Y has a 72kwh battery, so you’d probably get about 2-3% an hour. (3-6 miles of charge per hour)

When doing road trips, superchargers are typically every 50-100 miles, sometimes a bit more. Route planning in the car does a pretty good job.

I’ve only ever had one leg of a trip feel sketchy. It was when I picked up a friend from an Air Force base out in the middle of nowhere Texas. 1.5 hours out and back to the nearest supercharger. Took about 85-90% of my charge.

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kn4v3VT t1_j9vbj2g wrote

Reply to comment by Sea-Election-9168 in Kelley Stand is not plowed! No charging stations either! by SVTer

Also most generators do not put out anything close to utility grade power quality- this can wreak havoc on the cars internal AC to DC inverters. If you read the manual of any EV (which I highly recommend since it’s essentially a whole new technology that cannot be compared to internal combustion) they’ll tell you never to do that. I cringe (as someone with some electrical engineering chops) when I see folks on youtube do that shit to their $60k brand new EVs - which is why I’ll never buy a used one

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0thell0perrell0 t1_j9vb7wo wrote

Reply to Vermont stone walls... by bravestatevt

I've read a little about this in histories of my town, Bristol in Addison Co. There's a hill east of town that is now forested, but used to be cleared a long way up the slope. After they'd logged the original hardwoods, they got lucky with a second growth of white pine, which was logged in the latter 1800's. After that, it was used for sheep farming: there was a boom in merino-type wools in the late 19th century, and everyone was raising sheep. The soil is very rocky because it's glacial till, so there were many accounts of farmers clearing fields (creating the stone border walls) only to find the stones had re-emerged in their field the next year. Many of these pastures were abandoned, as ours was, and has returned to mixed forest - white pine, maple, birch, beech. I would not have given up so easily! Couplemore seasons you'd have high walls and clear fields.

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Nutmegdog1959 t1_j9v7ery wrote

Reply to Vermont stone walls... by bravestatevt

Two hundred years ago VT was 80% cleared and 20% forested. Now it's about opposite 80/20 forested/cleared.

VT was mostly sheep farms vs dairy at that time. Cows and goats will easily go over stone walls, sheep won't.

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