Current EV owners: are you sticking with full-EV or switching to EREV Harvester Scout?

[DaveGunter]

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.

If you do the math on the specs that Ram is giving for the Ramcharger, it’s about 20 mpg when the gas engine is running.

 

[drhnbtx]

If you do the math on the specs that Ram is giving for the Ramcharger, it’s about 20 mpg when the gas engine is running.

I think the Scout Harvester will be much more efficient just based on the engine packaging graphic that Scout put out. The Ram is a full 3.6 liter(i believe) that takes up the entire frunk/engine bay area

 

[DaveGunter]

Charging to 100% on a regular basis is not a problem. What is hard on the EV batteries is sitting for extended periods of time near 100% or below 20% especially in high temperatures.

My Nissan Leaf shows about a 9% reduction in range, on a full charge, with a seven year old battery pack. It sits most of the time at 80% and gets charged to 100% the night before longer trips.

Correct, and 100% indicated is not actual, the manufactures build in an upper and lower buffer precisely so that the batteries don’t sit at full capacity.

 

[TwoJacks]

I think the Scout Harvester will be much more efficient just based on the engine packaging graphic that Scout put out. The Ram is a full 3.6 liter(i believe) that takes up the entire frunk/engine bay area

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.