Rivian R1S

Grit dog wrote:

JRscooby wrote:


Another idea; If driver of MH could power up the toad on the fly, make toad pull itself, or even push, on steep hills, or when need to accelerate.
This would make room in battery for the regen.

ROFL. Or what if it could fly, like a Jestons car, or teleport itself to the next destination….
Oh wait. Self driving is basically fully functional. You could have it virtually hitched to the Moho…..

I have seen ads where the car will park itself for the driver. And the cruise control system will slow the car to maintain safe following distance, sound alarm and brake if gets to close. Bell 1 add locks the car door if a bicycle is passing a parked car. Are you saying there could not be a target on the back of MH, so a car does not stay tight to it? Now add V bars for safety, and to move the car under normal driving. We can already apply the toad's brakes from MH driver seat. Would it take a lot to turn on Regen with the MH's jake? And with that regen working to slow the combination, a lot of the waste energy could be put in battery, used to move the toad next day, or even supply residential loads when MH parks for night. But with the amount of energy that needs to be dissipated by a MH brakes in the course of a day of driving, I could see EV battery reaching full charge. When that happened, the regen braking goes away. Turn on EV, let it push against the towbar, help MH get up to speed.
Now many will say the market is to small, nobody will work on this idea. But throughout history many things have been invented, not to sell, but to use. Somebody is likely working on towing their EV, even if the manufacture does not recommend. If it is somebody as dumb as I am, they are just doing mechanical things, just like a ICE. But if also can work with computers, who can say what they can come up with. Near 10% of cars sold worldwide last year where EVs. Somebody wants to tow one.