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

[RC616]

The Harvester kicks in after 150 miles of battery only driving in order to get ahead of the charging for the additional miles. You can select battery only and get 300+ miles of EV only range. It really is the best of both worlds. I would only select To have the Harvester kick in on extreme road trips.

I like the sound of this a lot better for the harvester.

 

[TwoJacks]

Where has it been written that you will be able to extend ev only range to 300. The ram charger doesn’t work this way, and I haven’t seen anything that says the harvester will allow this. From what I’ve seen the generator kicks in after around 150 miles of pure ev whether you want it to or not.

 

[Ready4Rivian]

Where has it been written that you will be able to extend ev only range to 300. The ram charger doesn’t work this way, and I haven’t seen anything that says the harvester will allow this. From what I’ve seen the generator kicks in after around 150 miles of pure ev whether you want it to or not.

shows that’s it selectable right on the screen

 

[TwoJacks]

Yeah, I’ve seen that. Don’t think that means what was being described here or what you think it means. Maybe you can turn on the generator early, but nowhere does it say you can run on ev alone for longer than the designated range of the battery. If the scout harvester offers 150/350 ev/generator range, there’s no way that can go 300 miles on EV alone.

 

[Ready4Rivian]

Yeah, I’ve seen that. Don’t think that means what was being described here or what you think it means. Maybe you can turn on the generator early, but nowhere does it say you can run on ev alone for longer than the designated range of the battery. If the scout harvester offers 150/350 ev/generator range, there’s no way that can go 300 miles on EV alone.

Guess we’ll all just have to wait what the final configuration is in a couple of years.

 

[TwoJacks]

Guess we’ll all just have to wait what the final configuration is in a couple of years.

No fun in that. Much more fun to speculate and imagine that a 150 mile range battery will magically go 300 miles.

 

[Ready4Rivian]

No fun in that. Much more fun to speculate and imagine that a 150 mile range battery will magically go 300 miles.

True, it’s not a hybrid so a 150 battery is not going to work, it will be a larger battery, just saying

 

[TwoJacks]

That doesn’t make sense. No way it’s going to have a bigger battery and a full gas power plant and fuel tank. Charger doesn’t have a bigger battery and this won’t either. They said 150 EV only range already. Don’t know why we should not believe them.

 

[Ready4Rivian]

That doesn’t make sense. No way it’s going to have a bigger battery and a full gas power plant and fuel tank. Charger doesn’t have a bigger battery and this won’t either. They said 150 EV only range already. Don’t know why we should not believe them.

Because they said Harvester would kick in after 150 miles to stay ahead of charging the battery, they also said at reveal that the battery would run aprox 300 miles with extender turned off.

 

[gtodd]

Rivian R1T owner, have road tripped from Wilmington, DE to Houston, TX and back. Very comfortable using pure EV. I have one of each of the Scouts reserved: SUV pure EV and Truck with the Harvester option. The main reason for the Harvester option in my opinion is if you plan to do long distance towing. Otherwise I would stick to the pure EV models.

 

[rickmcd]

I live in Grand Canyon National Park, and although we now have an Electrify America just outside the park, many of my drives are through charging deserts. In the 4 corners region there was only one "fast" charger (50 kw) in Bluff. Now, there is a Tesla Supercharger in Kayenta. Nonetheless, I still want the backup of gas for longer trips and for when I tow my trailer. My current EV is a Chevy Volt, the original EREV.

 

[M3_R2]

My 3rd EV will have a minimum 400miles of range. Ideally, that's a Scout with solid state battery. I'd be surprised they are available at launch and more likely 6-12 months later. Which I'd still be OK with. But if they couldn't achieve this, I won't be going harvester, I'd just buy an EV that could. I wanted the Terra originally but the Traveler is starting to grow on me. All depends on final configurations and options and of course, costs and competition.

 

[Jrgunn5150]

No need or interest in the Harvester for me, and I tow all the time.

I'm running about 8,000 lbs weight, and only go farther than 50-60 miles in a shot once a year or so.

I'll take the greater range and less complexity for lower cost.

Harvester is a brilliant marketing move targeted at all the anxious people who insist they need a garrilion miles of towing range, then proceed to scoff and be amazed at my90 mile daily commute because they only leave their zip code every five years.

 

[JVaughn864]

I currently own a Mach-E and will be going with the harvester option assuming it's not a crazy expensive option and that it doesn't severely limit the battery only performance/range. I can easily get around in my daily driving activities on 150 miles without experiencing range anxiety.

 

[mcnels1]

Ideally Scout would give drivers control over when the Harvester runs. For the sake of argument, I'm going to assume that the Harvester version's battery is large enough to give 200 miles of range, the Harvester engages to keep the battery charge at 25% when it is below 25%, and the Harvester produces under 200 horsepower:

• My battery is at 25%, but I only have 10 miles left to get home: I want to lower the target percent so the Harvester doesn't turn on, since I know I can charge very soon and I'd rather not use gasoline.
• I am towing a 5000 pound trailer up I-70 west of Denver across the continental divide, gaining over 6000 feet of elevation in 45 miles with a 65mph speed limit: I want to set the Harvester's target to 80% of battery charge so I have as much energy as possible in the battery since the Harvester will not be able to keep up with the power demand.

I have a BMW i3 with a range extender, which produces 34 HP. The car's EPA electric range is 81 miles. As delivered, the range extender had a 7% target charge. Once every two weeks I used to drive 110 miles round trip to work, mostly on I-25 with a 75 MPH speed limit. The range extender would engage when I was about half way home, it isn't powerful enough to maintain the charge when going 75 on level ground, and I still had around 15 miles left to go on I-25. To avoid running out of charge I would get behind a tractor trailer in the right lane (usually going about 65) and set the adaptive cruise control to the minimum following distance. Between the slower speed and the decreased wind resistance from drafting the range extender could just keep up.