Changed my Reservation from EV-Only to Traveler Harvester....Because of THIS Bonus use.

[Jrgunn5150]

Disagree with this opinion… You can take your house and run it for two or three hours early in the morning get refrigerator heat and everything up to snuff. Be able to use your vehicle for maybe half the day… But I don't see a very large percentage of the population living your scenario… When storms hit people hunker down…

Those of us in New England aren't doing much else but waiting for snow plows to come and open the roads for 24 hours. Elon Musk said the same thing about his EV's when people challenged him why he wasn't doing car to Home. His narrow minded reply was well then people can't use their cars… Last time I checked none of us are going anywhere with hurricanes tornadoes floods or snow storms. The car is sitting in the garage as an anchor until we can use it to support the emergency situation.

I'm just saying, I owned a PTO generator, and when my power went out, having my tractor running the house was not nearly as useful as having my tractor clear limbs and snow.

I have an 800.00 generator that can run my whole home without issues and I don't have to do anything, it's tri-fuel, propane or ng is all it ever sees.

 

[maynard]

I have a generator for my house, but not enough output to charge an EV at the same time, so I guess I'm thinking most people that live in areas that have frequent power outages already have generators and the harvester really should be just the best it can be for its own vehicle battery charging. Do one thing great, not several things just ok...

 

[Bkenyon53]

Hopefully someone can shed some light on this.

Since this is essentially a generator and it's not powering the wheels, is it safe to assume that once you run out of your battery, you can't just put gas in it and go like a current PHEV correct? You'll need SOME sort of charge left in the battery because the generator won't be able to charge at a rate higher than the Scout requires to operate.

I'm thinking of road trips.
If I drive 500 miles, I can't just pull over, fill the tank with gas and get another 150-200 miles. I'd need to charge the battery to a certain percentage along with the added gas.

Do I have that correct?