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    Range extender - please adjust spec to 250 miles of EV Range

    Why you guys don't install L2 outside? I'm thinking to put a NEMA 14-50 outside the garage for the fear of it catching on fire while charging. At least I won't get whole house burned down. A friend's house burned down while her Mercedes was charging over night. And she had been charging fine...
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    Range extender - please adjust spec to 250 miles of EV Range

    Correct 100%. I charged solely on EA network for the past 3 years with our ID4, but it's only because we got 3 years of free charging. And it's one of the main reason I got it. And yes, based on what it showed me about how much I "saved" with the free charging, each charge would cost $25-35...
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    Range extender - please adjust spec to 250 miles of EV Range

    I really hope the scout team focusing on your targets and try to make it out as soon as you can. 2 years of waiting would be too long for many, and technology could change, and design gets old. I appreciate you guys listening to the future owners, but don't let the noise to steer you off the...
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    Range extender - please adjust spec to 250 miles of EV Range

    Who wouldn't? The issue is not they don't "want" to give more range. The issue is the battery technology. For the same amount of room it takes, the energy density lithium battery can provide is still much lower than gasoline. Samsung just said their first solid state battery is ready for mass...
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    Range extender - please adjust spec to 250 miles of EV Range

    Not necessary if you want to charge your vehicle every night like charging your phone 🤣 To charge the 82kwh battery of our ID4 on 110v, it will take a whole weekend plugged in 24 hours a day.
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    Range extender - please adjust spec to 250 miles of EV Range

    You got it. I've constantly saying this in all the EV groups that HEV is a better solution for most people and I constantly got bullied. But that's the truth.
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    Range extender - please adjust spec to 250 miles of EV Range

    How efficient do you think those 35 ATs would be? I can tell you that the KO2s costed me 2mpg on my f150, and that's from 16 to 14 mpg, not from 42 to 40 mpg. If you know that mpg is actually a more illusional figure than gal/100 mile or liter/100km. Of course you can put smaller road going...
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    Speculation Alert - possible Harvester Engine Choices

    This sounds more like turbo charged EA888 then.😜
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    Speculation Alert - possible Harvester Engine Choices

    That will require a gas engine powerful enough to both maintain the energy loss on keep the vehicle going, and still have extra energy to charge the battery. If that's the case, then all discussions in this post would be solved.
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    Speculation Alert - possible Harvester Engine Choices

    And also, to create a constant 35kw (without towing), you'll want bigger engine so it doesn't rev to 5-6k RPM to give you that 35kw. You'd want something capable of 90kw then run it at 1500-2000rpm to generate 35kw, for the NVH experience of the passenger
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    Speculation Alert - possible Harvester Engine Choices

    Do the math and see how many gallons you had to use for that much of taxes. In GA for example, my wife's EV pay 212 extra tax each year, that's equals to 5 years of gasoline use on my Maverick hybrid.
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    Pulled trigger on BOTH

    Waiting passionately for the future updates.
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    Speculation Alert - possible Harvester Engine Choices

    https://www.mybmwi3.com/threads/another-real-world-limp-mode-experience-and-observations.1990/ Check it out here on the i3 forum. What's your SOC when you cruising at 70? we are talking about when the battery SOC is low and it's only relying on the gas generator. Then it went into limp mode
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    Terra- Remove LED trim light on Tailgate

    Got picture of the Euro Spec tail light you were referring to? Tell me you didn't mean just amber turn signal...
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    Terra- Remove LED trim light on Tailgate

    Yea, tell that to all these people on road. :ROFLMAO:
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    Speculation Alert - possible Harvester Engine Choices

    I do hope they can put that Cayman Boxer engine in there.
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    Speculation Alert - possible Harvester Engine Choices

    I understand your logic, just your use of UNIT drives me crazy. Battery capacity is kWh, and it is KW x Hour, which is equal to what you said "~75kw". It's for a 75kW output engine run at peak performance and continue running for 1 hour, how much power it produces (75kWh). There's no such...
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    Speculation Alert - possible Harvester Engine Choices

    Well, on this behalf then yes. Even if it doesn't provide the full 500 miles of full performance, if it can get you that far at reduced performance, it would still be better than a pure BEV with only 250-350 miles range.
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    Speculation Alert - possible Harvester Engine Choices

    This is bull crap. with all the HD trucks and Semis, why the road do not fall apart, but only with EV? Wife's ID.4 is similar weight to a new aluminium body F150, it's also 1000 lbs lighter than my steel body F150. And I only pay $20 each year for the F150, no special taxes. The only heavy...
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    Speculation Alert - possible Harvester Engine Choices

    Heavy duty trucks are different stories. Eventually you'll need diesel, and it doesn't matter how many cylinders on those Cummins, lol
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