(12-07-2019, 01:03 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(12-07-2019, 10:54 AM)SeldomRite Wrote: It's a cute idea, though I don't know if you can charge from the charging port while driving. That being said Tesla's supercharger network is massive and only people driving extended trips in the middle of nowhere flyover country will need anything other than the superchargers.

Here's the map of them: https://www.tesla.com/supercharger

You would need some computer hacking skills to get it to work. It's definitely physically possible to charge the car while driving. It is physically possible for a computer attached to the battery to tell a diesel generator on a trailer to turn on or turn off. But to make all that work within the software that the Tesla already has to manage its battery, you would want the cooperation of Tesla itself.
If their software is open source, some outside programmer with some talent could figure it out though

I'm guessing on this, but the car probably only runs signed code, so I don't think there's any way currently to modify the software on the user end even with source code access. Still it's an interesting question. You'd need a powerful generator to make it even a worthwhile endeavor, though, as even with a ten kilowatt unit that could feed a Tesla that whole amount steadily would still only be getting something like 25-30 miles of range from it per hour. (Assuming the cybertruck uses 350-400 watt hours per mile.) While the supercharger would do 10 times as much on current rates, and the newer (version 3) superchargers are even still much faster.

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