Biggest stupidity in car history? Add a gasoline engine to your Tesla

Oh! The Electric cars. Very cheap to run, very powerful and, above all, very quiet. They have only one recognized weak point that is derided by those who drive vehicles with a combustion engine: their autonomy.

Yes, traveling on long trips is very difficultIn Europe, with higher population density—and by extension, shorter distances between chargers—but in the U.S., distances are longer on long trips.

In general, electric car users are satisfied with their purchase This is often a point of no return..

But not all…

YouTuber Distorted perceptionHe has accustomed his long millions of followers to make all kinds of modifications to any gadget, which is why no one is surprised by what he has produced.

Tired of stopping to charge his Tesla’s battery more often than he’d like, he couldn’t think of anything else to do but convert it to a hybrid. How? Attaching the gasoline generator to the top plate of the fuselage.

We know what you’re thinking: the concept was already on the BMW i3 in its REX variant and the Opel Ampera; In these models, once the system detects that the battery has reached a low percentage charge, a small combustion generator is activated.

Tesla “Hybrid”

These little machines extended the autonomy of vehicles a bit, but they were still traps in Solitaire: What’s the point of buying an electric vehicle to depend on gas stations?

If possible, our protagonist has upped the ante by mounting the 400cc engine in the rear, with an external protrusion, in fact, the entire engine sticking out. In the video demonstrating the feat, you can hear the noise (unbearable) and the smoke it emits; Shocked to see Tesla polluting…

In this way, Friend Warbet strictly fulfilled his promise not to stop loading even once for 2,500 kilometers. have you done The short answer is yes, it has traveled that distance without stopping at any chargers, but wait, because the great print is the protagonist of this story, which we describe below.

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Burden, no; stop yes

He did not stop charging at the charging station, but admitted that he was forced to stop 5 or 6 hours a day to wait for the small motor to charge the Tesla’s large battery.

These burdens, we remind you, were under the hammer of the infamous machine, with no real rest. Why was there a need to stop? Because the Tesla engine in operation consumed more kilowatts than it produced.

Sleepless nights

The little machine never rests… and never lets anyone rest. Warped admits that he was forced to park far from the hotels where he stayed overnight.

This incessant rhythm left him “utterly exhausted, and at times he could not even speak.” Come on, I already miss the company’s superchargers and the quietness of an electric vehicle.

In short, a failed experience in terms of performance and driving, but a fun experiment, and above all, with too many clickbait elements.

You have to remember that this is moving on YouTube and this platform makes a lot of money and Warped lives off of it. This is the only way to understand the title of the video: “Wireless Tesla: I drove 2,500 km without charging”…

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