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How to run a Tesla on gasoline…
- Tuesday, January 13, 2026
Guest “Now that’s funny right there” by David Middleton
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Still, I’m sure it was amusing.
I just had this vision:
Millions of Teslas parked together, connected by electrical umbilicals, all the cars working in unison to supply enough energy to build just one more Tesla. This “pure-bred” will then be the “offspring” of Tesla cars.
All the Gang Green Tesla owners will climax as one, as they, vicariously through their electric cars, have successful procreative sex…
err umm theres a clip missing?
Found another link – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J5QA8C3S5k
The link I posted was from Facebook Messenger. It still works in Messenger, but stopped working here… Thanks for the YouTube link. I’ll update the post.
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Please don’t use these video loop images. They’re just annoying.
Why go through all the rigamarole for an all electric car? Even with the subsidies they are over priced. – subsidized by the average worker who can’t afford them.
The only real solution, if you really need one, is a high efficiency hybrid. Several of the Toyota hybrids and several others are getting over 50mpg on decently and suiuseful cars.
At 50+ mpg is approaches diesel efficiency without all the REALLY negative pollution of a diesel. That puts the all electric car, the high efficiency hybrid, and the diesel very near to par with each other on overall efficiency.
The electric car hides it’s overall efficiency in the fictitious “eMPG” from the EPA. The EPA regulation falsifies the actual efficiency by directly equating the energy in fossil fuels to an amount of electrical watts- conveniently hiding the power losses in production, generation, and transmission. They also don’t include the associated emissions and damage caused by the mining, refining, transportation, and illness and loss of life from treating the workers as near slaves.
The only electric car that is truly efficient is one drawing power from a nuclear reactor that recycles its own fuel until it is nearly completely reacted.
At the end of the video . Alex says “No ones charging their Tesla with a gas generator” Guess what .. Most everyone is charging their Tesla with a gas generator. It’s a Natural Gas generator at the Electric utility
The are finally admitting that Ian Wright was correct. Electric for off the line max torque and gas or diesel to run the generator. Think of your car like a diesel-electric train. Especially the constant stop and go, five ton trucks like trash, recycling, etc.
https://www.wrightspeed.com/
Way back when I first heard the term hybrid technology for cars my first thought was they were building an electric motor driven by a gen set like trains do.Basic engineering to design an ICE to run effectively and efficiently at a specific RPM rather than over an entire range of RPM then let the electric motor run over the entire range of RPM.
Imagine my surprise when I had an opportunity to sit down and read how car companies actually designed hybrids. Not at all what I expected. WUWT is full of smart people, was I wrong in thinking a gen set would be more efficient than the current hybrid setup? I’ve had engineering courses but am not an engineer by training so I know I could of missed something here.
Or you could be like Rich Rebuilds on YouTube who after rebuilding a Tesla (with two busted ones), got shafted by Tesla for not using approved repairers to rebuild it and now can’t use Tesla “Superchargers” whilst on the road.
He is currently fitting a GM LS V8 (Corvette motor) to a Tesla.
As usual like a lot of YT channels, it can be a little over the top.
Interesting showing the real world issues with these sorts of vehicles.
The next brillant step would be to replace the tesla motor with a diesel one and the 800kg of batteries with a 50l tank.
Since your carrying propane for the trailer – is there a propane conversion kit for a pure sine wave, lightweight genset?
OK, one gallon of gas, three hours of time, the Tesla goes 12 more miles. This is not a pretty picture! 12 MPG, three hours to go 12 miles, I’ll take the horse sir, my Tesla for a horse!
Or just hook up a team of old nags to pull the Tesla. Now that would be funny! Would give a newish look at what real old ‘horsepower’ is.
The same channel shows a Tesla being charged by a Ford F150 PowerBoost hybrid truck. It is really quite good at what it does. They also show it running all sorts of other items.
To me, that set-up makes way more sense that a full electric vehicle. You have the ability to drive on gas as well as electric and you don’t need a generator because your truck is one. Definitely worth a watch…
I can see these guys setting fire to themselves in some remote location as they top up the generator while its still running during a marathon charge.
Didnt see a calculation on how much full would be required to keep that thing running on full load for 14 hours+ hours (hint:it will be more than they want to carry) Never mind at least your sine wave will be pure.
how much fuel