David Cloud's long distance EV used 170 watt hours per mile. I've heard of that figure being easily twice that (I'm hoping a couple EVers chime in pretty soon!) So if he went 30 miles per hour, that would be 5100 watt hours total usage.
This
Honda generator can produce 4,810 watt hours on 1 gallon of gas. I calculated it according to 50% capacity producing 1500 watts *9.3 hours/2.9 gallons used. For David Cloud's highly efficient EV to burn through 4,810 watt hours (one gallon of gas) he would be able to travel up to 28.3 mph, and burn 1 gallon of fuel in the process.
This
larger generator produces 5220 watt hours per gallon at full throttle. This would surely boost his speed, and it does, to 31 mph.
I've owned an old Nissan that could trump 31 mpg if I drove it hard and fast with the AC blasting!
The point of an EV is to take advantage of VERY cheap electricity available at the tap anyplace there is an electric grid.
There must be some flaw to my math because this doesn't make any sense!
