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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...

It’s just physics. You lose energy transitioning from gas to electricity to kinetic energy all while adding weight. Scout has yet to say anything about efficiency, but it’s guaranteed that the harvester will not be a very efficient way to drive. Again, it’s not meant to be. It’s about...

Well, if the harvester gets a 20 gallon tank and adds 350 miles of range as they’ve said it would, then it’ll get 17.5 mpg on gas, which is several mpg below what a truck like the scout would get with say a modern turbo six. Even my Defender beast does better. Converting energy from gas...

Prices of US made goods generally rise when tariffs are applied to foreign competitive goods because demand shifts towards domestic goods, and when demand goes up, bingo, prices go up. And because if a competitor is suddenly 25% more than your domestic product, you’re going to raise your prices...

They’ve been pretty clear in several communications that it’s 150 EV, 350 Harvester. Sure, it could change, but there’s no way they can stick a gas engine and tank on a vehicle with the full size 350 mile battery. That’s just not going to happen.

obviously impossible to prove the point one way or another, but the information on the Ram Charger indicates its mileage while using the generator is not going to be stellar. Like was pointed out above, the only reason for a generator is for convenience. It probably won’t even extend range...