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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...

I keep seeing this coming up and wonder why anyone would buy one of these if you don’t plan on plugging it in. The only reason to get one of these over a full ICE car is if you plug it in and use the battery to power your short daily drives and commutes thereby benefitting from lower per mile...

You’d get a pathetic amount of charge from any panel that you could put on a car.

more like you could keep going another 350 miles. Everything the company has put out so far indicates a 150 mile battery and an extra 350 miles of range in gas. So unless you stop to plug in somewhere, filling up with gas should get you another 350 for each tank but no more—and probably half...

It depends on how fast battery and charging technology advances in the next ten years. Maybe the harvester will still make sense in five years, but once batteries offer things like 800+ miles of range and ten minute charging, harvesters will be obsolete. Hard to tell if that’s in our future...

That’s the big question. If the Harvester is big enough to maintain charge under normal driving, and they don’t let the battery go below 20%, then my guess is yes, you could fill up and go. Question is whether that will hold true while towing. They might try and keep the battery at 50% under...

You realize this so-called project is mostly smoke and mirrors right now don’t you? There is no $500B. Like Softbank’s announcements, it’s all for show. Aspirational at best. Charades at worst.

Agree. Thinking about towing for a sec, the 500 total range seems to assume a full tank and a 100% charged up battery. Let’s say that gets cut in half towing, so you drive 200 miles or so and are close to empty in gas and maybe have 20% charge left as the battery has been maintained at least at...

Maybe do your own research. Over supply is an energy industry term that describes projections of world demand and supply. We are in an over supply situation because production is more than able to meet world demand. And oil prices are not at historical highs as a result. Gas prices are not...

I love adaptive cruise control but always turn off lane assist or lane keeping as both cause you to lose focus on driving and neither can be fully trusted. The “driver must pay attention” thing is a joke because human nature is to not pay attention if a car uses fsd-like tech. Coukd care less...

There is no mandate. There is a set of executive orders that collectively seek the goal of half of all new cars sold in 2039 should be EV’s. Trump can cancel that with an executive order, but he can’t cancel most of the other EV related regulations because they are law. That will take a review...

Alaska is a special case, has poor charging infrastructure, and not at all like the driving 99.8% of people do in the lower 48.

Why bother with an EREV then at all? You’ll get better mpg out of a comparable ICE vehicle that doesn’t have to lug around a battery, and the battery manufacturing process means you’ll have a higher up front carbon footprint as well. Plug in hybrid’s and EREV’s make no sense if you never plug...

He doesn’t seem to be aware of the stated 150 mile range for the Harvester battery.

I camp all the time with a gas vehicle and a camper and the camper is self sufficient for power so no need to pull power off an EV. Also EV’s don’t lose as much efficiency off road as mentioned here. Long downhill passes in the Rockies give back a good amount of power through regen. Sure...

Diesel would require a lot more emissions hardware as well as DPF and a longer certification cycle with potential bans in many European cities to consider. I give diesel a zero chance for the generator.