Rivian Camping (mis)Adventure — EA disappoints

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It's just simple math. An hour of full power usage, like a griddle or coffee maker, would eat around six miles of range. Any AC, heat, etc used overnight would add to that. Most e-bikes have under 1kW batteries, so charging a dead bike should cost less than four miles each.
I am not looking at the video again, roughly 30 to 40 miles consumed with prototype kitchen 0.1. I missed how long they spent cooking so I am more concern with the energy lost converting to 110 plug rated at 15 amps.

I assumed the used the kitchen three times out of the day but am unsure since half, and girlfriend, stayed at a hotel.
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I am more concern with the energy lost converting to 110 plug rated at 15 amps.
A typical inverter is 93-96% efficient in its "power band." At very low wattage it is horribly inefficient. So if you leave it idling with a phone charger, you're wasting most of the power it's using. Just like an engine. At the peak output there's also usually a slight bit of loss, but not crazy. At some point they said something about "shouldn't have just left it on," and yeah, it may have been idling at a few dozen watts, for nothing.

I've had a number of boats and RVs with inverters and battery banks to live off away from the dock for days at a time.
 

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They had a list of 10k planned, I know of like a dozen so far. Plugshare doesn't have a separate search for them.

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That is interesting.

In AU, Tesla has about 60 superchargers, and plans to triple in the next couple of years. I've never seen a 30,000 rollout plan.

Rivian claims a list of 10,000.

One company is spending, and the other is selling.

The internet helps to spread hype, and it becomes alluding to marketers. But it is becoming a two-edged sword… the internet also helps to expose the non-truth.
 

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It's just simple math. An hour of full power usage, like a griddle or coffee maker, would eat around six miles of range. Any AC, heat, etc used overnight would add to that. Most e-bikes have under 1kW batteries, so charging a dead bike should cost less than four miles each.
A coffee maker might consume 1300 watts for the 3 or 4 minutes it takes to complete the brewing but then it drops down to around 100 watts average to keep the coffee hot. So, probably closer to a mile or two of range to make a pot of coffee and keep it hot for an hour.
 

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Solar on the CT will brew 105 cups a day.

If you sell each for $3, you can gross $114,975 per year.

I , Roberto will be kept busy. !
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