John & Angela wrote:
Ivylog wrote:
With all of a 150 mile range before needing to recharge for hours it would take me 10 days to get to CO instead of the 2 using diesel. Electric vehicles are best when you have stop and go driving like city buses that recharge the batteries when stopping.
Yes but this is not a motorhome, nor is it being marketed as such. These are marketed as command and control vehicles etc. I don't think it would be hard to make an electric motorhome with reasonable range with todays technology, but the charging infrastructure would be inconvenient presently. Charging at 50 amp RV sites although possible would be less than ideal for those who are just overnighting. Man of the CCS and Chademo sites are too small for a motorhome to get into them without blocking access to EVers. It will all develop in the next 5 or 7 years. The first comobos will be Tesla semis pulling large fifth wheels. Again though, they will need to disconnect for supercharger access.
Precisely. A bookmobile or mammogramobile, etc. isn't going to need to travel across the country in general. These will generally be recharging overnight at "home" in whatever application they're used for, and wandering over a fairly limited area.
Although, it seems to me, this is exactly the sort of use where an electric vehicle is perhaps the least beneficial--you have little savings in fuel when you don't need to drive very far. Maybe the maintenance benefits and especially tax and publicity benefits make up for that. Maybe some will also be able to use the main battery bank for what we would call house loads and avoid needing a generator or external power connection to provide books or cancer screening or emergency services coordination.
