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[Electric Cowboy]

Don't care if California shuts down the electricity from the forest fires! We have an EV Siphon!! Just sucking those electrons out for whatever we want!

In this video, Morgan decides to make us a picnic, combining 2 of the best things to come out of Italy, pizza and motorcycles. We cook the pizza using our new invention, the EV Siphon. It pulls electricity out of your electric vehicle to use however you want! We are actively seeking funding and hope to make this product available to everyone.

Also... if we are able to get funded, Energica has committed to integrating with our tech to become the worlds first production electric motorcycle to allow power out / v2g/h/x power anything, including your whole house/building!
 

[Crissa]

How much power does it take to cook a pizza? O-o

-Crissa

[DonTom]

How much power does it take to cook a pizza? O-o

-Crissa

How many watts is the pizza cooker?  How long did it take?   I wonder how much his SOC dropped down.

-Don-  Auburn, CA

[Crissa]

I loved the video

It just raises so many questions.  Like, how do you transport a pizza on a bike.

-Crissa

[DonTom]

I loved the video

It just raises so many questions.  Like, how do you transport a pizza on a bike.

-Crissa

ICE riders will simply say they can use their bikes to go to  a Pizza Hut or whatever.

I guess if you have a frozen pizza to heat up during the PG&E power outages--but I have my RV generator.

-Don-  Auburn, CA

[Crissa]

I have a generator, too; but I would rather have a nice, quiet battery.

-Crissa

[Richard230]

Very creative, but that frozen pizza looks scary. 

[DonTom]

I have a generator, too; but I would rather have a nice, quiet battery.

-Crissa

RV has that also. The house batteries and an 5KW MSW inverter which will work as well as a true sinewave  for making heat. So there is your nice quiet battery.    The batteries stay charged via solar when not being used.

I also own a 10 KW inverter, but it's still NIB (New in Box).

-Don-  Auburn, CA

[Electric Cowboy]

Don Tom, good for you enjoy your RV also, this is not a pizza cooker, it supplies AC electricity. Which this Pizza cooker runs on

@Crissa this used about 400Wh to cook the pizza because we used full power. Cooked in 15 min. So we estimate cooking a pizza would use about 2-3 miles of range.

This means that the 13.4 kw bike has a range of 30 pizzas and the 21.5 has a range of 47 pizzas.

Also, while I know it is fun to talk about Pizzas, it seems that some people are not realizing this is using the bike as energy storage, we just happened to plug a pizza cooker into it...

Here is another example to help think outside the Pizza Box :

[Electric Cowboy]

Very creative, but that frozen pizza looks scary. 

We didn't think we were actually going to eat it, but it did actually smell really good. In the end... we ate the whole thing!

[Richard230]

Now I get it. All I saw was the pizza and the pizza cooker. I passed along the video to several other people as I thought it was quite creative and they thought it was about a portable pizza oven too. At least that was the case until I received a reply from a friend who had seen that cooker advertised before. It was only after I realized that the cooker was already on the market and then saw DonTom's comments above that I realized the video was about the cable and not the pizza cooker. 

I might add that I power my computer from an old motorcycle battery using a 12V 120V inverter when the power goes off. So I do get the concept. I guess the idea is to power 120V circuits directly from an EV battery pack and that requires a special connector, cable and inverter. 

[Electric Cowboy]

Now I get it. All I saw was the pizza and the pizza cooker. I passed along the video to several other people as I thought it was quite creative and they thought it was about a portable pizza oven too. At least that was the case until I received a reply from a friend who had seen that cooker advertised before. It was only after I realized that the cooker was already on the market and then saw DonTom's comments above that I realized the video was about the cable and not the pizza cooker. 

I might add that I power my computer from an old motorcycle battery using a 12V 120V inverter when the power goes off. So I do get the concept. I guess the idea is to power 120V circuits directly from an EV battery pack and that requires a special connector, cable and inverter. 

This is to use your battery as a whole house backup, for all plugs and such of all voltages

Let me see, I think I have a video on that too. Feel free to subscribe



Thats actually a whole playlist of siphon videos.

[DonTom]

Don Tom, good for you enjoy your RV also, this is not a pizza cooker, it supplies AC electricity. Which this Pizza cooker runs on

Where was the inverter?

-Don-  Auburn, CA

[Richard230]

Don Tom, good for you enjoy your RV also, this is not a pizza cooker, it supplies AC electricity. Which this Pizza cooker runs on

Where was the inverter?

-Don-  Auburn, CA

I just made the assumption that there had to be an inverter somewhere on the cable or maybe in the handle. Otherwise, how could it function to power a 120V appliance?  Am I right or am I wrong - again?

[DonTom]

I just made the assumption that there had to be an inverter somewhere on the cable or maybe in the handle. Otherwise, how could it function to power a 120V appliance?  Am I right or am I wrong - again?

When it comes to heat, DC power is exactly the same as AC (RMS) power. That includes the MSW inverters that will read low on most voltmeters (RMS voltmeters are kinda rare and pricy). If there is an issue with running DC, it is the motor, not the heating element.

What "RMS" (Root-Mean-Square) in AC means in simple terms is how it compares in heat to DC at the same wattage under the same load. So to the heating element, 117 VDC is exactly the same as 117 VAC (such as your 120 VAC in your house).  RMS is the norm for AC voltage measurements (there are also peak AC, peak to peak, average AC--and the list goes on). But RMS is always the DC heat equivalent of AC in a heating element.

But motors are MUCH different. Some motors only work on DC  others only on AC. So since the pizza thing had a motor, it most likely is designed for AC, which means an inverter is needed somewhere and best would be a true sinewave inverter, but most will accept a so called "Modified Sine Wave" inverter. But that is sales BS. They are really a modified square wave.

Your household AC is a pure clean sinewave. Pure sinewave inverters are more expensive, and often not necessary, such as for heat. But running motors or charging your Zero is often taking a chance and usually will not work as well, if not damage things.

-Don-  Auburn, CA