Charge a Tesla With Portable Solar Anywhere

Charging a Tesla with a Jackery Explorer 1500 and 4-100W panels yield meaningful range increase. Certainly not as much as a real charger but my estimate is that it can yield 8-16 miles or range charged per day. These miles can add up if you park for many days without using the car and could even serve to offset some standby power usage of the car in hot conditions.

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[dmx]

The solar charger should have been built into the Tesla. When you got to work, there is at list 8-9 hours sitting at empty lot at work.If you could get 20 mile of charge out to it, it would make a world difference, my work is about 14 miles from my home.

[MrAmanW]

Came for the solar, stayed for the tea.

[aaronboggs]

This is essentially what Aptera is doing with their EV. It weighs about half what a Model 3 does, was designed with total efficiency in mind, and has enough built in solar panels to generate about 25-30 miles of range per day.

For many folks with short commutes, this would be totally sufficient, and allow them to drive almost entirely off solar power.

Rich Rebuilds reviewed an early prototype about a year ago, and Donut just did a review of a near production ready model. These things are awesome (if you don’t mind a 2 seater and some pretty crazy styling) and start around $30k. Would really like to see them succeed.

[BlakeEdmondson]

Tesla could make this whole thing obsolete by adding a small 200w roof that adds a small amount over time.

[em_tion]

You give a whole new meaning to "2 miles an hour so everyone can see me" and I like it! 😁👍

[bullitthead]

Dude just chillin in the middle of a parking lot charging his car, dig it!

[e-michigan]

Cool! I have exactly that Jackery unit plus some Renogy panels that give me more than 400W of power total. I knew about the neutral-ground trick to fool the EVSE, but thanks for the inspiration to do it myself.

[DeniJasmina]

I do the exact same thing. I take a one week vacation just for this purpose. I pick a store front parking lot and spend my time there. Worth it.

[samanthamariefreeman]

Yippee hurray!! Three days ago I mentally asked the question, can an ev get charged by a Jackery Solar generator!! Thank you! The world needs more electrical engineers!!

[EyeFoodForYou]

I can see how this makes financial sense. I mean in a post apocalyptic world…

[gnosis]

I think this would be a great way to charge a Tesla while camping at a remote site! Thanks for sharing this idea!

[amnottabs]

I wonder how much efficient could it be if the car itself had the connectors for the solar panels so you could skip the DC>AC>DC conversion

[LisaWong]

Thanks for doing this experiment. I was wondering if the Jackery would work with Tesla and you just saved me a tons of money and time to see it come true.

[richardh]

British tip: don't squeeze the bag as it makes the tea bitter x

[justusmuller]

He is living his best live. I love it.

[g.pearson]

Genius
I’ve always wondered why Tesla doesn’t create a wireless charging box for emergencies

[raffichowdury]

Wow! Tesla can really have built in solar panels glass on the door windshield and back. They have another solid panels on the hood side door and back trunks. That can produce about 40-60 miles every 10 hours. This will be game changer. Seriously! Protera company already doing it.

[joeybu]

Dang I thought you would get more miles out of that.
Thanks I can stop asking why these cars don't have built in solar panels.

[kvlwcpu]

ايضا يمكن تصنيع غطاء يحمي السيارة من الأتربة أو الأمطار أو حرارة الطقس وفي نفس الوقت يزود السيارة بالطاقة الشمسية عن طريق خلايا شمسية ظمن الغطاء ويمكن حملة داخل السيارة❤

[Quitenice]

Little surprised you didn’t give the calculation on how many days it would take for a full charge ❤️😊