Battery Size kWh estimated

[TwoJacks]

Try going camping where you have to run power to the campsite. Obviously you have never went camping or you would know. So you crack me up. And when you’re in your BEV thats dead from power your campsite, ill be flying by you in my Scout Harvester honking my horn laughing at you because ill have an extra gas can to get me home.

And 350 range on road is completely different when you’re off-road. You lose range off-road.

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, it’s possible to come up with a route or two here and there, but most routes intersect with towns where charging will be available as the charging network expand. Crossing Namibia will be different. But this is not Namibia. The range issue for overlanding is overblown as is the whole notion that there are lots of true uninterrupted overlanding routes more than 100 miles in the US where those fancy red external gas jugs are necessary. Few and far between. They sure look cool though.

 

[Mouse63]

350 mile range in perfect weather conditions keeping it well within speed limits at 100% charge, brand new battery. However on the road you would charge to 80% thus range would be less than 280 miles. Cold weather would probably reduce that further to about 230 miles. Realistically, to avoid any range anxiety you probably would probably need to stop after 200 miles to top up. So roughly less than 3 hours per drive at highway speeds.

 

[joewilk45]

Solid state battery news fyi
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[ScoutChamp]

Scout has said that the BEV chemistry will be NMC in the 130-140 kw/h range. It is my understanding that NMC batteries take a performance hit at low state of charge levels. How is scout going to seal with this performance hit ?

 

[6-ScoutFamily]

Well, everyone with the BEV have fun finding a charger in the boonies, 150 on BEV is enough for 80% of my driving, and the other 20% off road can be with battery powered by the Harvester, with a spare gas can, no charger needed.

I concur here. My in town driving is 90% or more so the 150 is sufficient. The Harvester will be good for road trips, particularly in places like Wyoming, Montana, etc. if starting off with a full battery and gas tank can get you 500 miles, that’s 23+ mpg. Not too bad for a full sized truck with this power.

 

[6-ScoutFamily]

Same, I wonder if people have thought that the range means nothing 'Off Road', that battery will go down fast off road in low range in hilly terrain.

I don’t recall Scout saying anything about a low range (4L).

 

[JesseS]

I don’t recall Scout saying anything about a low range (4L).

It will need a low range gear ratio or the instant torque will spin the tires with any pedal at all in dirt.

 

[6-ScoutFamily]

Surely a soft throttle response could be programmed in the software.

 

[TwoJacks]

Stellantis patented a new 2 Spd EV transmission for off-road, but so far I think the only EV's with a 2 Spd transmission are the Taycan and Audi etron GT, with Lucid, Mercedes, and a few others planning to add in some new models. Sounds like it would jack up the price considerably, so doubtful Scout will use 2 Spd in the first batch. They probably would have noted it in the specs if they planned to go that way.