I actually like the videos. I think they're quite informative but i'm a tech guy so this stuff interests me. Not sure how many luxury owners will find these valuable but they're interesting for sure. The Wunderbox and the tech behind it seems to be something Lucid is very proud of so definitely interested to here more about this. It's also good to see that Peter won't be doing all these videos also and getting a bit of variety.Give them some credit, they are young and trying. Luxury market is not easy to be pleased.
I live in hot Arizona and my car is a PHEV (BMW 530e). My garage is not air conditioned although it does not have a lot of exterior walls and I did have the garage door insulated. But the temperature in the garage (east facing) does get into the 90s regularly. I plug in my car from the 240 box and while it is charging (from empty it takes about 2 hours) I will often hear the AC turn on the cool the batteries, sometimes a couple of times.
If your garage has multiple interior walls, you might have existing ductwork aside or above it. If your air-conditioning system is big enough to handle it, oftentimes an additional register and return can be put into the garage itself.
I know. That thought has occurred to me. My home was a model home and the builder had his showroom in the two car part of the garage and two offices in what would have been the third bay. When he finished building, I asked him to leave the two offices when he converted the space back to a garage. So there is ductwork running from the air handler (which is in an air handler closet in the garage) right through the garage to the two offices (one for my wife; one for me) I have a 5 ton unit for my first floor so that probably has enough capacity although I would have to ask.
Interesting. I am not up on the electrical engineering side of things. About how fast would you get, say, 100 miles out of a Tesla charger, then, at only 50 kW?
Let's assume your car averages 3.2mi/kWh (this varies by wheel size and DE versus GT and driving style). That implies the need to add 31.3kWhr to the battery. Assuming 85% charging efficiency, you will need about 37 kWhr into the car which would take about 45 minutes. Not terrible if nothing else is available.
Thanks. Not terrible. Certainly good in a pinch. But given you’d have to pay whatever rates Tesla wants, you’re much better off with EA until your three years of free charging is up, I guess. Unless any EA charger nearby is broken or being used.
Interestingly the Taycan does a better job at this. standard is 70Kw I believe and for an upgraded inverter you can go to 100Kw.
It's possible that Tesla's V4 chargers will be 1000V capable on their CCS port wheil remaining at 500V max on the Tesla port. Time will tell.
I was surprised you can bring an electric cooking stove to camping with Ioniq5.
