Dale.Traveling wrote:
This might work for an airport rental car or distance parking lot pick up and drop off, a moderate speed local tour bus or a very specific public transit or school bus route but not a for revenue service. If the bus isn't moving it's not making money and being down for five hours after moving for four might not be a working solution for a large potion of the for profit operators.
For an RV application using this configuration recharging a depleted 600,000 watt battery bank from a CG 50 amp service will take at least 50 hours. 30 amp will take a week. Drive for 5 and recharge for 50. The summer vacation drive from upstate New York to Fort Wilderness that used to take 3 days will now take 12 days. Describing this as a predecessor to an EV class A is a bit like describing a 1908 Model T as predecessor to a 2020 Shelby GT500. It did happen but it took over 100 years to get there.
I suppose. But it’s not an RV. It’s a bus. So who knows what the RV version would look like. Give it 5 years. We’ll see.
And of course people travel and tour in different ways. Our last North American tour in our Motorhome was around 14500 kilometers. It took us 5 and a half months. Other than maybe the prairies I doubt we ever travelled more than 300 kilometers in a stretch. And then quite often sat for up to a week.
Who knows. Maybe an integrator will integrate a 20 KW quiet Diesel generator for more autonomous ops when stationary or charging off grid. . Best of both worlds. Lots of variants possible. I would think the purchaser would configure it they way they want it. With the way range has been growing on electric vehicles in the last 10 years I would say a 500 mile range is achievable in the next 3 or 5 years. Charging. Well, that’s another challenge to figure out with these big suckers. It will be interesting to watch.
I remember when the leaf came out 10 years ago the critics were saying there really was no room for growth with battery density and at best we would ever see with EV’s would be around 300 km max range. :). That and 50 kw max charging rates or the batteries would melt. :). That didn’t age well at all. :).
