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I look at exactly the opposite. My main need is to tow a camper as well, but Would rank the harvester third on my list for a TV behind a full EV and an ICE truck. Reason is that either a Rivian max pack or a charger BEV will get me far enough towing now that I would be fine with stopping to...

That doesn’t make sense. No way it’s going to have a bigger battery and a full gas power plant and fuel tank. Charger doesn’t have a bigger battery and this won’t either. They said 150 EV only range already. Don’t know why we should not believe them.

No fun in that. Much more fun to speculate and imagine that a 150 mile range battery will magically go 300 miles.

Yeah, I’ve seen that. Don’t think that means what was being described here or what you think it means. Maybe you can turn on the generator early, but nowhere does it say you can run on ev alone for longer than the designated range of the battery. If the scout harvester offers 150/350...

Where has it been written that you will be able to extend ev only range to 300. The ram charger doesn’t work this way, and I haven’t seen anything that says the harvester will allow this. From what I’ve seen the generator kicks in after around 150 miles of pure ev whether you want it to or not.

From what I’ve read, Rivians actually post ranges similar to their ratings whereas Tesla’s are mostly BS.

Yes I’ve seen that. That’s why the generator kicks in earlier in the battery depletion cycle when it towing mode. So when it won’t run out of gas before using up the battery. Otherwise it would never get full range out of the gas tank. Still needs to be a sizable engine either way.

Maybe. Honestly, since the Ram Charger full EV has a range of 500, and the Rivian Max is already at 420, the range of the Harvester Scout doesn’t seem worth it. Main benefit is shorter refueling times charging on long trips, and more places to refuel. But it’s still a polluting poor mpg beast...

I don’t think it’s going to be as small as everyone thinks. It has to produce enough power to keep the battery from depleting even under relatively heavy load or you’ll run out of electric before the gas tank is even empty. With the Ram Charger they have a tow mode where the harvester kicks in...

I’ll be retired soon, so stopping g for a recharge every three or four hours with a Rivian max pack is something I can live with. Towing across country getting 10 mpg is not—for me. For short day trips I’d rather have a small Kia EV than haul a monster like the Scout around town. If the...

Yes, and that is about 4-5 mpg below what a comparable ICE truck gets nowadays. Will likely get around 10-12 towing. Just doesn’t really make sense to me. I’d rather just buy an ICE truck with better mileage.

Well, yeah. What else are we going to do for two years on these forums? It’s an educated guess though based on the ram charger and on the physics of carrying two engines around. Can pretty much guarantee harvester mode is going to return some pretty lousy mpg numbers.

Neither the RamCharger or Scout Harvester make sense for me since I would mainly use for longer trips, and mpg under harvester mode will likely be worse than just a conventional ICE vehicle. If I’m going to go electric I’d prefer to go all electric and get longer all ev range than the harvester.

I’m not seeing any estimates of mpg while in harvester mode, but if the ram charger is any example, mpg in harvester mode will likely be worse than an equivalent full ICE vehicle. Makes sense since you’re hauling around two power plants. So while EV mode allows for efficient short trips, if...