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A question on the EREV versions:

I keep hearing conflicting reports about what happens once the battery has been drained. If the battery is depleted but the gas tank is full, can the vehicle still be driven normally? Or driven, but with reduced performance? If the latter is the case, what sort of performance hits can we expect?
 
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A question on the EREV versions:

I keep hearing conflicting reports about what happens once the battery has been drained. If the battery is depleted but the gas tank is full, can the vehicle still be driven normally? Or driven, but with reduced performance? If the latter is the case, what sort of performance hits can we expect?
Generator will kick on befoe the battery is depleted completely.

But for more information about this @Jamie@ScoutMotors would be the guy to answer this better.
 
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Generator will kick on befoe the battery is depleted completely.
And if you drive to the end of the 500 mile range, both the tank and the battery will be empty (or nearly so). So if you fill up with gas at that point, you now have a full tank and an empty battery. What happens? Do you have to sit for a while and let the generator run to charge the battery at least partially, or can you just drive off, using what the generator puts out? If so, how is performance affected?

Basically, will the generator put out enough to drive the car with somewhat acceptable performance if the battery has been depleted.
 
And if you drive to the end of the 500 mile range, both the tank and the battery will be empty (or nearly so). So if you fill up with gas at that point, you now have a full tank and an empty battery. What happens? Do you have to sit for a while and let the generator run to charge the battery at least partially, or can you just drive off, using what the generator puts out? If so, how is performance affected?

Basically, will the generator put out enough to drive the car with somewhat acceptable performance if the battery has been depleted.
Nobody knows exactly what happens. It’s like the December 31, 1999. What happens next is only a guess and Jamie really is the source but short of digging through the various threads and guessing everyone is just waiting as patiently as they can
 
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I would bet that the engineers at Scout Motors know. Which is why I asked.
My guess is they are still solving items. The Scout was two years in the making before the Harvester came around and my hunch is that happened shortly fore the reveal just over a year ago so I’m sure the concept is there but not all the final answers. And I’m sure they won’t be sharing the open items with us until everything is nailed down and accurate. There are minor items posted here that turn into weeks worth of speculation and I’m sure they don’t want that for a major component
 
I suspect it might depend on your definition of depleted. I think most EV's maintain some level of reserve to prevent the battery from being damaged. I suspect the EREV will have a higher level of reserve to maintain acceleration performance after the EV range is -0-.
 
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It’s like the December 31, 2019. What happens next is only a guess
I don’t know where you were, but I knew exactly what was going to happen on 31 Dec 2019.

It was New Year’s Eve, my wife and daughter were spending the day enjoying the SoCal sun, and that evening we drove to the bay to watch the fireworks as the clock hit midnight and the date changed from 2019 to 2020


Wasn’t terribly eventful, but it was memorable.
 
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Nobody knows exactly what happens. It’s like the December 31, 2019. What happens next is only a guess and Jamie really is the source but short of digging through the various threads and guessing everyone is just waiting as patiently as they can
2019? or 1999, when the world thought it was the end of time because nobody thought the date could go up to 2000?
 
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2019? or 1999, when the world thought it was the end of time because nobody thought the date could go up to 2000?
Anyone who really believed the world was ending because of a year change either never read any books on how our modern calendar was created or spent far too much time covering things with aluminum foil…
 
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And if you drive to the end of the 500 mile range, both the tank and the battery will be empty (or nearly so). So if you fill up with gas at that point, you now have a full tank and an empty battery. What happens? Do you have to sit for a while and let the generator run to charge the battery at least partially, or can you just drive off, using what the generator puts out? If so, how is performance affected?

Basically, will the generator put out enough to drive the car with somewhat acceptable performance if the battery has been depleted.
Extremely unlikely that it's binary.

Extremely likely range is infinite if you keep putting gas in.

Extremely likely they never get plugged in if they work that way.
 
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Extremely unlikely that it's binary.

Extremely likely range is infinite if you keep putting gas in.

Extremely likely they never get plugged in if they work that way.
Okay me and my questions. Let’s say you do that. You never plug in to charge the battery is your range now only 350? Basically how many miles the generator could charge the battery on a tank of gas?
 
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