Electric vehicles, including all-electric vehicles, have the ability to draw electricity from their energy recovery system to recharge the batteries on the go. However, how much fees can be collected in doing so?
Jason Fenske’s Technical explanation aim to learn in this video, with the help of friends and Ford F-150 Raptor put into service as a towing vehicle. Here, the exercise has Raptor pulling Tesla Model 3 at approximately 30 km/h, and shortly after the two vehicles were in motion, Tesla’s onboard instrumentation showed renewable energy in progress.
The display on the Model 3 shows that the electric vehicle has a negative consumption of 945 Wh per km, or how much energy is being regenerated and replenished by the Model 3’s battery. This regeneration rate increases to 1,000 Wh per km, or 1 kWh per kilometer, and Fenske and friends will stop both cars at the end of the 1.4 km distance.
Next is where Fenske joins two of his friends, and they depart for Tesla to see how far the Model 3 can go in terms of the energy it regenerates when pulled around a loop of the circuit. Finally, the Model 3 completed a full 1.4 km lap just before its energy reading showed a positive number again, indicating that it had fully used up the energy regenerated from the battery. being towed behind the Raptor.
Then, Fenske and his team ran another four laps in both cars to establish base consumption figures, and the Model 3 came up with 193 Wh/km, or the equivalent of 2.2 l/ 100 km for internal combustion engines. For comparison, the Ford F-150 Raptor managed 22 l/100 km, or exactly 10 times the equivalent consumption of the Model 3.
The exercise was then repeated with the Raptor towing Model 3, and driven this way, the Raptor more than tripled the fuel consumption to 69 l/100 km.
Technical explanation sum, and it will appear – tongue in cheek, but seemingly backed up by numbers – based on energy consumption figures found, pulling Tesla Model 3 to regenerate power and drive Tesla will more efficient to drive the Raptor itself.
So, what are the top consumer tips according to Fenske? If you have a Ford Raptor, buy a Tesla Model 3, pull a Tesla for renewable energy and that’s it – you are saving the planet.
