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John Velasco

REVEALED: I tried charging an ev with a portable power station and the results surprised me | Rare Historical Photos

Portable power station charging an EV.

Ever since I got my hands on my first portable power station a few years back, I was already thinking of all the ways I could save on electric use in my household. Since then, I’ve been testing out increasingly larger ones that can sufficiently supply power to larger appliances, like the best smart air conditioners, thanks to their mammoth-sized battery capacities to keep them running for longer.

In the last few months, however, I’ve been doing several test drives with some of the best electric cars around — so I thought it was finally a good opportunity to see how much of a charge I could get using a power station. This idea came to me after I tried charging a Kia EV9 at a charging station only to realize it was just as expensive as filling up on gas due to the rates, along with realizing how slow Level 1 charging at home was like with the Hyundai Ioniq 6.

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