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  1. strider

    0-60 times with harvester

    Yes but this is one of the fun things about EVs. The massive torque can be used for work and play. Take a giant diesel truck. That thing has massive amounts of torque. But because of the narrow power band of the engine, it is geared very low in order to tow. This means it has terrible...
  2. strider

    0-60 times with harvester

    It's not the weight, it's the number of battery cells and the maximum discharge rate of each cell. Once you hit that rate, the only way to get more power (current/amperage) is to add more cells. Fewer cells means less power (current/amperage), all else being equal.
  3. strider

    What one thing would you like to see changed from concept to production?

    $175 for the Tesla ones and you can program them yourself. They used to include them with the higher end vehicles (S/X) but even stopped doing that a couple years ago. They claim that people weren't using them and were using their phones instead. Mine was one of the last that came with them...
  4. strider

    What one thing would you like to see changed from concept to production?

    I think it depends on how often you lose power. The beauty of being able to use your truck as backup power is that you get other use it for productive things when the power is working normally. We lose power once or twice a year for a few hours. I would love to be able to power my house...
  5. strider

    What one thing would you like to see changed from concept to production?

    With Tesla's, below a certain speed (like 2mph) if you lift your butt off the seat and the seatbelt is unplugged, the car will go into Park. So if you are one of those people that back up a truck to a trailer with the door open and one leg hanging out, it may not go well for you. I was one of...
  6. strider

    What one thing would you like to see changed from concept to production?

    Having owned Teslas since 2010 (2010 Roadster, 2012 and 2018 Model S, 2022 Model X Plaid) I will gently push back on this. The Roadster had its charge port in the same place as the Lotus Elise's fuel port (just behind the driver's door). The first gen Model S was rear wheel drive so they chose...
  7. strider

    0-60 times with harvester

    Except that it does. I posted this in the other thread but Tesla lost a lawsuit because they advertised the max HP of the motors except that the battery pack could not supply enough current to produce those numbers. Further, when they debuted the v3 Roadster years ago, they needed a 200kWh...
  8. strider

    Extra, Extra....Read All About It!

    They have had this as a service in the SF Bay Area for like 10 years (there's one in LA called Fuelster). A small fuel truck would fuel your car while you were at work. Doesn't seem to be any profit in it as the companies seem to come and go regularly. That and they seemed to get shut down...
  9. strider

    0-60 times with harvester

    We already have a thread for this: https://community.scoutmotors.com/threads/accelleration.2665/ As @Chuckles said, it's due to the smaller battery pack, not weight.
  10. strider

    Extra, Extra....Read All About It!

    I disagree. The TAM for BEVs is too small. You can see it in manufacturers constantly falling short of sales expectations, projects being cancelled, etc. How do you grow the TAM? The 2 biggest hangups people have are cost and range anxiety. Cost is improving as battery costs come down...
  11. strider

    Has Scout mentioned anything about battery thermal management?

    Thermal management of batteries are indeed table stakes these days. That is why EV batteries last much longer than the batteries in your laptop, phone, weedeater, etc. Any time spent above 40C (104F) causes permanent degradation of Li-Ion batteries. When it comes to efficiency, I don't know...
  12. strider

    Battery Life Cycle

    Nice to e-meet you but I am glad you are not the CEO of Scout. I have been driving EVs for 15 years now and SSBs are like fusion energy, always just 2 years away. Go back and read your posts in this thread. I can't even count the number of times you said "should, will, etc." It's all pie in...
  13. strider

    Accelleration

    Funny story about another benefit of EVs. A few years back I was in my Tesla Roadster, heading home at around 11:00pm after visiting a friend. Roads were pretty much empty. I was sitting at a stoplight and a guy in a Tesla Model S rolls up next to me. Despite both being middle-aged men, we...
  14. strider

    Accelleration

    To answer the OP's question, the difference is due to the smaller battery in the Harvester. Why is this so? Li-ion batteries (all batteries actually) have a maximum safe discharge rate. This means that the total amperage available is a function of the battery chemistry and the number of cells...
  15. strider

    What is one feature you hope Scout will include that has not yet been shown?

    Unfortunately this is a regulation and it cannot be disabled, muted, etc. I can say, however, that they are terribly fragile things. Soon after I bought both of my last 2 EVs, I went over some really rough railroad tracks and wouldn't you know it, they stopped making noise. Along those lines...
  16. strider

    Mechanical locking 4x4 over automatic

    You made post after post about how reliable manual locking hubs are and how unreliable and expensive automatic locking hub are. Scout will have neither of those things. Short of ripping the entire wheel hub off the truck, there is nothing to break. But I'm tilting at windmills now. You've...
  17. strider

    Mechanical locking 4x4 over automatic

    Ok so for the 3rd time. THE SCOUT WILL NOT HAVE UNLOCKING HUBS. THE HUBS ARE ALWAYS LOCKED. THEREFORE THEY WILL BE MORE RELIABLE THAN YOUR NEIGHBOR'S TRUCK BECAUSE THERE IS LITERALLY NOTHING TO BREAK. THERE IS NO LEVER, NO RELAY, NO SWITCH, NO MODULE. For Pete's sake. Please, just stop.
  18. strider

    Extra, Extra....Read All About It!

    Official launch is on Monday 8/11. Supposed to be mid-sized, in between Maverick and Ranger. I think if the price and range are in the ballpark it will sell.
  19. strider

    Mechanical locking 4x4 over automatic

    So just to follow on to what @TreeKiller and @SpaceEVDriver just said (and what I said a couple pages ago), your statement above is wrong. There is no shift motor in an 2+ motor EV so you will never need to buy one. There is no shift motor because there is no center diff. The hubs are always...
  20. strider

    Interior Colors

    One thing to note as you move to an EV/EREV. It is trivial to pre-cool your car from your phone before you get into it, even in a closed garage (since there's no exhaust). So you will get into the habit of pre-conditioning 10 minutes or so before you plan to leave. Presto, no toasted buns...
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