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- Good news for us!
Ford also announced extensive re-charging network.
Am watching development on the first-to-market for electric pick up for a towing truck. - Curious how the CCC numbers will work out. Teslas batteries weigh over 1200 lbs, don't know what these will weigh but have to believe it will be a lot more, am curious if you can put much in one, especially after filling a fresh water tank.
Yosemite Sam1 wrote:
I wouldn't hold my breath on that one. It's going to be several years before any electric truck will be able to both haul a big load, and get a range of several hundred miles. Most likely will happen, but it's a ways in the future.
Good news for us!
Ford also announced extensive re-charging network.
Am watching development on the first-to-market for electric pick up for a towing truck.- Given that motorhomes already have generators, and a battery pack, would it not be relatively simple to enhance both of those systems to provide an on demand source supplemental power on hills or merging into traffic?
Some transmissions have a provision for a PTO shaft. Maybe it would be possible to hook up an electric motor to the shaft and add power to the drive train through it.
A robust generator (10k watts?) and a substantial lithium battery pack could provide a possible source of additional power as needed.
I would be interested to see if that was possible. Orcadrvr wrote:
Given that motorhomes already have generators, and a battery pack, would it not be relatively simple to enhance both of those systems to provide an on demand source supplemental power on hills or merging into traffic?
Some transmissions have a provision for a PTO shaft. Maybe it would be possible to hook up an electric motor to the shaft and add power to the drive train through it.
A robust generator (10k watts?) and a substantial lithium battery pack could provide a possible source of additional power as needed.
I would be interested to see if that was possible.
I don’t know. I think it would be simpler just to add a 20 Kw diesel in a hush box for a back up method of charging and leave the whole drive train electric. Do most of your charging at DCFC or for those who stay a couple days or longer just charge in the camp site. Meter the pedestal.- A 15KW gen is less than 20 HP so that wouldn't be much help.
- Stupid double post
- Either way on these last two items, doesnt that defeat the purpose of the "Clean" vehicle?
Both gas and diesel vehicle drives have all forms of clean burn tech built in, from catalytic converters and fuel injection to DEF systems, Portable generators and small non vehicular systems have none of those supposedly "clean features". They produce more emissions and have a higher pollutant level of exhaust than vehicles designed to minimize those items.
You would be eliminating a cleaned system to run electric, refueled by a dirty system.
And you are now adding the weight of an additional generator and the associated fuel to your "Clean" system taxing it even further. wanderingaimlessly wrote:
Either way on these last two items, doesnt that defeat the purpose of the "Clean" vehicle?
Both gas and diesel vehicle drives have all forms of clean burn tech built in, from catalytic converters and fuel injection to DEF systems, Portable generators and small non vehicular systems have none of those supposedly "clean features". They produce more emissions and have a higher pollutant level of exhaust than vehicles designed to minimize those items.
You would be eliminating a cleaned system to run electric, refueled by a dirty system.
And you are now adding the weight of an additional generator and the associated fuel to your "Clean" system taxing it even further.
I don’t know. The majority of the charging would be done from the grid. Either in the campground or the occasional fast charger I suppose. It wouldn’t make sense otherwise. Genny is a nice backup though. I think the main draw to the electric chassis would be performance, handling, convenience, low maintenance. Most people don’t buy EV’s for environmental reasons or because it’s in some way a “clean vehicle”.- A Prius for example has a 121 HP, 1.8 liter gas engine for when the battery can't keep up. Trying to use a small engine to recharge a much larger battery bank is going to require many hours of generator time to provide a short driving time. If you were to boondock for a week with a lot of solar, supplemented with several hours a day of genny time you could recharge a sizable battery bank. But who would want to spend the amount of money that this rig would cost to be limited by its characteristics?
