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Biggest battery on a Tesla Model Y is 81 kwh. To charge fully in 8 hours you need 10kw of power. Sounds like a lot. Central AC is about 4kw. An electric sto
by fallingknife 4y ago
Biggest battery on a Tesla Model Y is 81 kwh. To charge fully in 8 hours you need 10kw of power. Sounds like a lot. Central AC is about 4kw. An electric stove is 3kw, and another 3kw for the electric oven. A microwave is 1kw. Can you run your ac, oven, stove and microwave at the same time? If so, you have more than enough to charge an electric car. And that's if you drive 330 miles per day. If you drive 36 like the average driver, you can charge your car for the same amount of power as running your AC for 2 hours / day. Power just isn't an issue.
- Ralo 4y agoIt possibly could work, but we would be pushing our system beyond its already maxed out limit. We can hardly handle AC units in the summer. Imagine your entire neighborhood has their AC systems cycling. While stoves/microwaves come on (because people come home from work and cook food), then everyone decided to run an Arc welder in their garage at full power for 2 hours. It's a big issue of timing. If you split up these actions and only do some at a time, you can make it work. Barely. But in reality these power draws are corelated.