Powerboost and Lightning need to be recruited to offer Uber Electric roadside service 🔌

[ekaddo]

“Given the Ioniq 5 had only 8 percent charge remaining, we used the F-150 Lightning's 240-volt outlet to provide the vehicle with some extra juice to ensure it could reach the next non-Tesla charging spot.”
https://www.motortrend.com/features...agic-dock-hands-on-review-charging-other-evs/

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[tbinmd]

It will charge, but will just take a really long time since the trucks just don't have the amperage for fast charging. In a pinch it's a nice assist, but far better to plan your EV route before hand.

There's a company developing/testing a fast charging road side assistance vehicle that works off a battery pack.

 

[Porpoise Hork]

It will charge, but will just take a really long time since the trucks just don't have the amperage for fast charging. In a pinch it's a nice assist, but far better to plan your EV route before hand.

There's a company developing/testing a fast charging road side assistance vehicle that works off a battery pack.

The 7.2 KW system on the PB basically qualifies as a Level 2 charger. This might work to get EV's enough power in a short time to make it to a L3 station. Even if that won't work it really wouldn't take much to add a high output battery pack to a powerboost designed for rapid EV charging and then use the onboard 7.2KW system to charge the battery back up in between uses.

 

[tbinmd]

The 7.2 KW system on the PB basically qualifies as a Level 2 charger. This might work to get EV's enough power in a short time to make it to a L3 station. Even if that won't work it really wouldn't take much to add a high output battery pack to a powerboost designed for rapid EV charging and then use the onboard 7.2KW system to charge the battery back up in between uses.

I know it's level 2, but it's only going to do ~6kw, it's going to be slow. 30AMP circuit is not much. If you can sit there on the side of the road for a few hours depending on how far you need to go to get a charger with more amperage.

 

[imnuts]

Show up with a trailer. Charge the EV while hauling it to the charging station. May not necessarily work for the Lightning, but the Powerboost would be fine from a range perspective.

 

[notabot]

Show up with a trailer. Charge the EV while hauling it to the charging station.

Just wondering... How much of a hassle it would be to become a tow company vs. building out a fast charger in the bed of your PB and just show up on the side of the road to lend some electrons?

If we get more EVs you have to believe folks are going to be running out of lightning bolts all over the place. Wouldn't you agree, most drivers are not very attentive to their vehicles?

 

[amschind]

I tried to charge my buddy's Bolt and it consistently tripped the breaker as the amps ramped up. For many of them, you need a cable that can limit it to 30A because at least some EVs will not.

 

[notabot]

I tried to charge my buddy's Bolt and it consistently tripped the breaker as the amps ramped up. For many of them, you need a cable that can limit it to 30A because at least some EVs will not.

Just wondering... Do any EVs have a charge setting that will keep it at a low amp draw vs max draw from a power pedestal?

 

[amschind]

The charger has to do that. A friend had his Tesla S parked by my PB the other day but he wouldn't let me charge it, so I failed to test it out.

 

[RociPB]

The 7.2 KW system on the PB basically qualifies as a Level 2 charger. This might work to get EV's enough power in a short time to make it to a L3 station. Even if that won't work it really wouldn't take much to add a high output battery pack to a powerboost designed for rapid EV charging and then use the onboard 7.2KW system to charge the battery back up in between uses.

We should start up a charge sharing service based on this general concept. Based on my own research into companies that specialize in mobile EV charging services and home EV charging station sharing, the F-150 PowerBoost PPO system is valuable in terms of efficiency and operating cost. Hauling around lead acid batteries the size of a Ford transit van is obviously inefficient, and that is the basis of every single company that does mobile ev charging. The PowerBoost can generate a virtually limitless amount of energy if it’s within a mile or two of a gas station, the only limit is the 7.2 kW output of the PPO system. And when you have less than 10-15 miles of range on an EV, an extra 15 or 20 miles being added in 30 minutes is worth paying a few bucks for. And that all happens wherever the EV is already parked, the owner doesn’t have to drive to a place and sit there while it charges. You can keep doing what you were doing and watch the miles stack up from your Tesla app. In terms of overall efficiency and versatility, our modest PPO system could be golden in the rapidly growing EV charging industry.

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