JeffK
Well-Known Member
From the replies thus far it appears that nobody who currently owns a Tesla has attempted to charge their car with a portable generator. BTW...the last car I would ever own is a Volt. I'm not asking this question to derive a permanent everyday solution to charging my future Model 3, but instead of a possible rare case where I know I am going to be going somewhere where I know there is no charger.
Portable generators don't generate enough power to charge electric cars.
Anywhere there's going to be gas, there's going to be electricity. Also the more people that have electric cars the more people are going to have EVSEs installed at their homes to deliver decent charging rates. The next 10 years is going to be huge for electric cars.
In the not too distant future there will be no typical destination in the country that you could go without somewhere to charge. The places that are exceptions wouldn't have gas either, so you'd have been stranded there anyway.
More than half of the US National Parks also have EV charging as of last year.