Charging electric car
With the continued proliferation of electric cars, I wonder if RV manufacturers are working toward a way my RV can charge a Tesla, or other electric vehicle, while plugged into shore power, or on the ...
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JRscooby wrote:Reisender wrote:
Yah. Really it’s a matter of software and a brake pedal sensor for the Motorhome. Just a matter of someone writing it and the warranty thing.
In normal driving of the EV, you want to slow, step on the brake, does the regen start then? And can you lift your foot from the go and whoa pedals, coast for some distance? (Remember, I know I'm ignorant.)
And most brake systems use some system to move brake pedal of toad? Any brake systems that do not use input from the MH brake pedal?
Unless I'm way off on any of this, I would say it would take very little change in programming, the technology is there.
Now I can see it would take some re-programming, but not a lot of change, for the toad to help the MH. And likely some changes to MH. (At least something to let the car know it is behind it's MH so it would not try to ride that close to another vehicle.
Regen braking is exactly that. No throttle, regen applies to load to match coast down FMVSS requirements. Apply the brake, and they system applies greater regen loads... until you exceed regen loads and friction braking takes over.
Ford has a screen that shows percentage of braking that went to regen. I got pretty good at 100%. Friction braking takes over completely IRC at 5mph and below. Pretty easy to modulate the pedal to achieve 100%.
