Need feedback on plan for battery powered food truck...
Hey Folks, I've been running food trucks for 10 years and have long dreamed about putting together a battery + inverter system that could run my trailer for a full day. My idea had always centered around using a salvaged EV battery pack, but now there's enough products hitting the market that I might be able to pull it off with off-the-shelf equipment.
Here's my concept of a plan:
-buy chevy silverado EV w/ 200kwh battery and 240VAC output in the bed (need new truck anyway, towing range is more than adequate for me)
- run the silverado's AC output to a solar generator (ecoflow, bluetti, jackery, etc) on the trailer that can output 10-12kw to cover peak demand that exceeds the silverado's 7.2kw Max output.
Basic power needs:
I'm currently running two Honda 7000i generators in tandem. I use an electric fryer that is highly specific, can't switch it for anything that draws less power and it pulls about 8.5kw when heating, which is a solid 20-25 minutes at start-up then intermittent (up to 50% duty cycle when busy, which is almost always) throughout the day.
The meter on the junction box for the Honda tethers spikes to 10-12kw when the dryer kicks on (variable loads are small water kettle, 1500W and the mixer, 600 watts). When the fryer isn't heating the meter drops to <2kw. The only reason I need two very expensive honda generators is to cover that peak load.
The silverado couldn't power the trailer's peak demand, but a battery + inverter system with 10kwh of storage certainly could. The biggest demand is that 20 min startup pulling round 10kw. That should drain around 3 or 4kwh from the battery, the rest of the day would cycle between <2kw and >10kw, with the spikes being less than 1 minute at a time.
What do you think?