Yes, you CAN charge your Tesla with portable solar!!!

This video was a month in the making and yes, I am successfully charging my model 3 with what is commonly called a

solar

generator. They're actually

solar

panels connected to a DC power station, but you get the idea that the sun comes in, the power goes here, you have plugs. and you can plug things into those outlets to power them. Solar generator. Now I'm talking about all the shadow you see now. It's one of the challenges of living in the forest. There will be more sun later in this test to cover it, but. I couldn't wait until later to try this once I had all the parts to do it and right there we're already at 38 percent and we're putting in about 500 watts at a time that I'm hoping to get.

About three miles in range, but I don't want to wake him up to even see where we are now. I'm going to let this continue to the end, but before I get to that I want to show you all the things I had to do to make this work. I've seen a couple of other channels try this without success and that's because none of them manually reduce the charging current to a reasonable amount that is below the amperage rating of the power plant they are using. We're going to start with 5 amps, the jackery will be able to deliver more than that, but I don't know if I want to try it because it's not about getting power to the battery quickly, it's just about seeing if we could transfer it from a solar power generator, a solar power station

charge

d to Tesla battery, so for all this to work, these are the components we need.

Some of them are integrated into the solar panels themselves, the jackery has what is known as a floating neutral and to make it work with the Tesla mobile connector you have to use something like this. This is a

portable

generator plug-in plug and is actually something you can make

your

self, but I was able to purchase it. from amazon and that way I don't have to worry about whether I did it right or not and I have someone to chase if it doesn't work and then I have this because the different plugs on the connector aren't attached to each other so I need to plug this in here and then this is going to go here and then we're going to plug in the mobile connector here.

This is very heavy gauge on purpose. I wanted to use something heavy gauge so I wouldn't have a line. loss problems voltage problems between the jackery and the mobile connector, you can see there are a lot of shadows here and they are 10 10 48, you can see why I don't have solar at my house, we have trees everywhere and I'm actually I don't expect these solar panels to provide power, it doesn't matter because at most you could get about 175 watts from the two combined, but we're going to get about, I would say, 800 watt hours out of that battery on the

tesla

battery and about an hour of time that it won't add much in that amount of time even if we were in direct sunlight it's actually about using solar panels to

charge

the power station which can then charge the

tesla

not necessarily all at the same time now this will be the first try, let's see if we can get this to turn into a green light, yeah, green flashing green, we're good, okay, next step so far so good, it worked and now it's flashing blue, flashing green. oh my goodness it's working it's working the amps are up to 5 amps now and it shows 110 volts which is correct it's the actual voltage coming out of the connector it shows zero miles per hour charging but that has to show up .

This is great. it's actually working now, it's going to take about two hours for this battery to go to zero and spend its thousand watt hours, it's not all going to go to the Tesla battery because there's going to be a line loss, there's going to be a power loss. that's actually used to power the mobile connector, the battery management system is actually back here, the battery management system and the tesla uses power, so we're not going to add a thousand watt hours to the tesla's battery , but we'll add something again with the In the shadows you can see why I don't have solar power at my house.

This is November 17th, it's 11:02 a.m. m. and those solar panels barely get anything. I'm getting six and seven watts of power from them when their maximum combined capacity is around 175 watts. Realistically when powering the jackery because again you have some line loss from 100 watts, 100 watts connected to the jackery you can max out at about 175 watts but wow this took a lot of research and planning and I'm giddy that this is running, I'm not sure where I'm going to put this in the video, but you can see some driving stats here, this is from the last time I charged, I drove 138 miles, it took me 38 kilowatt hours to do that, which works. at 277 watt hours per mile, so of the maximum 1000 watt hours the connector can provide, I could get a range increase of 3.61 miles, but I'm not going to get all of the 1000 watt hours of the battery in of the range because the mobile connector takes time to power the battery management system inside my tesla takes power, there will be power, this heat loss, so it will probably be around 80 percent of that or closer to about three miles which could add if I go over 100 load in the jackery. the road to zero, but it'll be interesting to see what actually happens, of course, when I edit this I'll know, but as I'm doing this part of the video right here, I don't know how it's going to turn out.

It turned out quite well as all the Jackery power station outlets are regulated, the output of about 500 watts staying the same from the beginning until the point the station went dark. I didn't bother chasing the sun to add power with solar power. panels, but I absolutely would if I had to put up a park and have sunlight throughout the charge, it took me an hour and 38 minutes to add the three miles of range I was hoping for, although in theory it could have gone up to nine amps and I charged even more fast. I wanted to be conservative for this test and stuck with five amps.

This was an absolutely successful proof of concept. I used that power station that can be charged with those two solar panels and about eight hours of normal sunlight for a day and I got about three miles of added range, that's all I expected and that's exactly what we got stop charging 225 miles plus three miles and you're still getting two volts from the power plant, that's pretty interesting, oh my gosh, oh, like I said. It was a month in the making and it all came together on a windy fall day with leaves falling everywhere and about an hour or so away.

I'm going to have a little bit better sunlight there so I can see what I can get with that power. station but here we go, oh that's fantastic, this solar generator is from Jackery, which is a company founded by a former Apple battery engineer to make

portable

renewable energy sources. This is their top of the line system consisting of one 1000 watt power station and two 100 watt foldable solar panels the explorer 1000 power station is a 1002 watt hour nmc lithium battery capable of generating 1000 watts of sustained power with the ability to max out at 2000 watts to power things like power tools or small AC compressors.

It has a maximum power point tracking controller. For solar charging that combines with the extremely efficient Saga 100 monocrystalline solar panels to convert a notable amount of sunlight into battery power, there are larger systems available, but this is the most portable and durable you'll get for something with its power. , which is why it is the system I wanted to use for this test, although it is not designed to charge electric vehicles, it is as capable of doing so as any system with enough power to add range in an emergency and enough efficiency to capture that energy from the sun while I'm.

Hoping the sun is in a nicer position for the video, I'm going to charge this power station again. It comes with a DC plug so you can plug it into

your

vehicle's 12-volt outlet and charge it. It also comes with this power brick or 120 volt, oh I have it there and you'll see I actually have these outlet protectors on so I don't throw ground into them, we'll get this up to about 10 15 percent, maybe a little bit. A little more before the sun is in a good position to be able to reload and see what we can do with the sunlight hitting the panels correctly.

You can see that even my own body is going to be a problem with the sun on. These panels are here, but I already have them topped off at 10 percent of 120 volts in my garage, but now I'm going to use some solar here and there's no real shade on those panels. I'm still only getting about 120. Watts, they're not angled directly toward the sun, but I actually tilted them in front of the sunlight so I wouldn't have to keep coming back here. Oh, I have leaves there. I have to remove them, even the leaves like the ones at the bottom there.

That may be a problem, there may be nothing on the panels that will actually affect their efficiency, so I'll delete them and see what kind of charge we get over the next half hour or so and then we'll go back and run the test again charging the Tesla. I let it run for just over 20 minutes and the panels provided about 118 watts of very consistent power the entire time, even though they were in direct sunlight. The stands only provide a limited ability to adjust their tilt and that could have reduced their efficiency, regardless of whether it shows that it takes about eight and a half hours to charge the battery from empty, which is right on Jackery's claims, which It means that on a summer day of sunlight starting with a fully charged power station you could actually add maybe 8 miles of total range to a model 3 like mine, that's enough to be useful although I wouldn't suggest buying a generator solar alone for that reason, there are many more practical uses for them. having one on hand it's nice to know that you might be able to rescue a Model 3 if it was within 8 miles or so of a more stable power source so I know it's not a fluke but let's get this all working again.

I have a splitter so I can place the connection plug in a place where the Tesla mobile connector can detect ground. I'm going to plug it in and then I still get about 119 118 watts of solar on the AC and that powers this this is green and it actually draws about 9 watts just the mobile connector now we're at 16 with the battery and I know how it's going to work , press the up button, wake up the car here, why doesn't it work? here we go and that has nothing to do with this solar setup we turned green and it's charging so we're back to 537 watts that's awesome.

I have to walk funny to avoid casting a shadow on the panels. That is incredible. It actually works, I'm so excited that this works, this is not practical in any way, but I actually got frustrated watching other people try this and not get it to work because they knew what they were doing wrong, so I'm. I'm glad I was right and what I was thinking and this is all working. This is fantastic. The battery in my Tesla Model 3 is about 75 kilowatt hours, that's 75 times the battery in this one. In fact, you need to recharge it between 90 and 100.

There are times when you need to use it to complete this from empty due to line losses and things like that and you need all the solar charging capacity to increase along with this. These are monocrystalline solar panels and are among the most efficient you can get. With an efficiency of 23 in the United States, the average driver drives about 29.2 miles per day, which is about 7.5 kilowatt hours of battery life using the average power I got from two of these panels. You can see I need about 16 of them to generate the 30 miles of range I could use day after day if I drove like the average American and that's for my Tesla Model 3 which is by far the most efficient EV on the market When you start talking about cyber trucks and other large vehicles, you quickly realize that it simply won't be practical for them to carry enough solar generation to power themselves day after day, it's not enough to just have the panels you need to keep them facing the sun at all times. the day, otherwise you'll need even more solar panels to make up for it, that means you'll spend most of the day pointing solar panels or you'll need some kind of gadget that automatically does what will need to be powered by the solar panels in reality, if the you have in a tesla and the tesla has enough space, I suppose the tesla could move on its own during the day, but again, that will require power that you will need to generate from even more solar panels charging.

Any solar powered electric vehicle is feasible. I just demonstrated that you can, but it's not necessarily practical to add miles of range in an emergency, it actually seems like it could be a pretty good use of this type of system, although you don't even need the solar panels. To do that you just need to have one of these charged and readyto work. Solar generation in this setup is designed to power your campsite, your truck, your power tools off the grid and I'm working on a video that shows just that. When I finish it, I'll be sure to pin it in the comments and put it in the video description.

Purchasing a system like this to charge your electric vehicle on purpose, I just don't see it as a rational thing currently, however, it really is great that it works if you are interested in getting Jackery products for yourself by using the links in the video description and pinned in the comments to do so it will help the channel if you want to get a tesla for yourself make sure you use the one from my Tesla owner. The referral code is here. It will give you free supercharge if you make sure to subscribe so you can see more videos about solar generation.

I really appreciate you seeing the technology and I hope to see you next time bye