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Until you have to shut everything down to go out and get some groceries. I would rather have batteries or a home generator.

If anything the harvester is going to cost more. No way it’s going to be cheaper than the BEV.

Exactly. Bio fuels have been completely discredited as a solution mainly because of land use. We’d decimate the planet if we went that way. There are certain crops such as camelina that are more interesting as they can grow on scrap land and might not displace food crops or lead to...

In an emergency I wouldn’t need to fill up the EV. Would just need enough to get by. I’ll have two or maybe three Franklin wall batteries plus a fairly large ground installed panel setup so it should be no problem either using excess solar or some battery to keep the EV topped up or add 20% or...

All I know is when the sh&t really hits the fan and there are mile long lines at the gas station, I can fill up a BEV from my solar panels, but I can’t make gas myself (although my wife would beg to differ). For me, a BEV is about resiliency in times of disaster or economic strife, both of...

The closer we get to launch time, the less flexibility Scout will have to change anything major on these cars. At some point, designs have to go to tooling, and making major changes, such as size of EREV engine or battery size will become cost and schedule prohibitive. Don’t know how close they...

Except for unibody vehicles like my Defender which can tow over 8,000 lbs but is not supposed to ever use a wdh per guidance from Land Rover.

But towing range is halved for ICE cars as well, and many ICE trucks will struggle to get much more than 200 miles while towing. (Not diesels). A Rivian with 420 miles range can sometimes get close to 200 now. Of course charging times and locations are the main difference even if range between...

Sticking with the BEV for now, but would like to see an extended range version to get closer to the Rivian max range.

They’ve already announced a 150 mile battery for the Harvester. No way that’s going to change all of a sudden to 250. And it won’t be 500 miles from a tank. The harvester adds 350 miles, so it would follow that every tank will only get you another 350 miles unless you also stop to charge the...

We definitely can’t add charging stations on our own, but the Rivian route was also pretty uniquely long in the grand scheme of overlanding opportunities in the US. For many US routes, the Rivian range is adequate.

I don’t know if you’ve seen the many tests of EV’s off-road, but your assumption that rock crawling range would drop that much seems a tad pessimistic. Seems like it does drop, but not nearly that much. Here’s a nice write up on a long Rivian overlanding trip...

And there simply isn’t enough trade to support the US government budget, even if cut to the bone. As you said, trade would dry up, so tariffs income would drop like a rock. Even worse is that foreign direct investment would dry up partly because other countries wouldn’t have as many dollars to...

Not so fast there. Cafe standards are not rolled back yet. Duffy has said they will roll them back, But these are laws and changes need to go through the rulemaking process. It took Trump 2 years to make changes the first go around. It’ll take just as long this time.

I love everything about my LR Defender except for the fact that I’m burning a ton of fossil fuels and I’d really just like to stop doin that. I like to have fun going places a normal SUV can’t go, and camping in out of the way places, but I’d also like to do all that in a way that’s less...

It’s not like Rivian has never heard of erev technology before. If they were really thinking about it, they could have started anytime. No need to pilfer tech off Scout. Doubt they’ll ever add gas to a Rivian though as it’s completely off brand and would be a huge distraction for them as they...

Info from Scout has said current plans are 150 EV plus another 350 with the harvester generator.

Of that’s how we all drove all the time, sure. That’s not at all how most drive miles are spent.

Exactly. It allows them to avoid building massive transmissions that would only be used to get the train moving. Car use case is so different.

The challenge with the harvester is getting that kind of efficiency out of a generator that is sized to replace energy as fast as it’s used. Your generator didn’t have to do that. Very different scenarios. I could attach the tiniest generator to charge an EV but it would take forever and is...