You do you, but posting in a forum about diesel gen sets to power your house while we actively work on off grid/grid ties battery systems…..we might say “your doing it wrong “

Regardless I think diesel hybrids are the future of off road builds so get it driving!


I hope to be able to power 90 ...

gen set wise, have you thought about your continual power need?

Leaf is oversized perhaps, same with the tdi,

A kabota 3cylinder is a lot smaller and lighter..

Ambitious first project, definitely focus on getting the ev system up and running first, it’s a lot bigger of a project that you might ...

Great ground-up project!

Just one thing... I always discourage the use of fossil fuels
How much batteries would price of the generator trailer buy you in addition to the Leaf battery? And how much easier the integration? CCS rapid charging is solved as well :) https://openinverter.org/wiki/Foccci ...

Hello all. I had this in getting started, but didn't get much traction, and some actual work is beginning to take place, so I guess I may as well start this

I am deep in the research phase of a pretty ambitious build. As a background, I have a background in ME, and understand the safety precautions ...

Well, I'm a goof. I looked closer and found the attachments tab.

The sideways bus with the toy axle mocked up when it will still going to be diesel powered
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The chassis under it.
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And for good measure, another one of my VW's doing some yardwork yesterday ...

When I started, the first post didn’t allow image uploads. I think it’s an Admin duty to give you access to the full editor, probably to make sure you aren’t a spam bot :) From what Ive seen links to outside image hosting doesn’t work, you have to upload directly to your post - once you have that ...

I planned to when actual powertrain stuff starts happening, for now I'm trying to get my ducks aligned

I need to create an account somewhere to host images again, unless I missed a way to upload them directly here.

Hello all.

I am deep in the research phase of a pretty ambitious build. As a background, I have a background in ME, and understand the safety precautions, I have worked on 480v 3 phase equipment and retrofitted my fadal cnc mill with linux. So I'm not a rookie, but also can recognize dunning kruger ...