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  1. AlanL

    Paddle Shifters For Adjusting Regen

    I've never owned an EV so can't quantify, but flat land use is one of the reasons hybrids get great city mileage. Regen is just an alternate form of braking that generates electricity instead of heating up friction pads and metal disks.
  2. AlanL

    Harvester - Request to allow it to charge battery while parked & a 30-40amp/240v outlet

    Welcome! I'm pretty sure they have said V2H is in the plans.
  3. AlanL

    Harvester - Request to allow it to charge battery while parked & a 30-40amp/240v outlet

    Do you think they need more than a "Don't do this" warning? My Honda generator's manual has a warning like that. The dangers of running an ICE engine in an enclosed space are should be well known to any owner.
  4. AlanL

    Harvester - Request to allow it to charge battery while parked & a 30-40amp/240v outlet

    I would have to do some digging to find where it is said, but I'm 90+ percent sure they have mentioned running the Harvester like this in a camping scenario. Seems like an obvious extension to home use, especially with the factory in an area with hurricanes and prolonged outages.
  5. AlanL

    Paddle Shifters For Adjusting Regen

    You guys are coming up with feedback I hope gets implemented. Broken record me, blending sounds great for general driving but potentially deadly for towing. Going down the Panamint Grade into Death Valley we have to be absolutely certain that the friction brakes only get applied when the driver...
  6. AlanL

    Paddle Shifters For Adjusting Regen

    Welcome! Nice description of things I knew were issues but did not did not understand in depth. I dearly hope they do something where it will be easy and certain to use only regen to its max until I step on the brake pedal and then immediately back to regen when I let off. And control the amount...
  7. AlanL

    Tow range

    Is Scott Keogh in a high profile public interview good enough? I'm wondering about towing performance at various weights also. There is an Out of Spec Reviews towing video though that showed in their experience drag is by far the biggest impact on level ground, weight matters more on grades...
  8. AlanL

    Tow range

    Fair enough not formally announced, but … From the Jay Leno interview, quotes from the transcript with corrections as best I could. Plus some non-gas-and-go tidbits that I caught this time. I’ll go through the much longer Motor Trend interview to see if more is said. Scott Keogh at 2:30: … we...
  9. AlanL

    Solo Scout camping fantasy lineup

    We have a Duxtop, love it. No CO, no excess heat. I almost never use our gas cooktop these days.
  10. AlanL

    Tow range

    Funny you should ask, ... Charging from the generator is a misconception of a sort. The Harvester software should ensure that you never drain the battery to zero. The generator will not be big enough to provide full power without being way to big and heavy. Look at the Ramcharger and it's V6...
  11. AlanL

    Tow range

    A common difference I’ve seen from various sources is about 1/2 range for a typical trip, 1/4-ish for grades. Here are some notes I’ve putting together to help me decide if I could tolerate the BEV instead of the Harvester: BEV, 125 kWH battery, 350 mile range Not towing: 350 miles at 2.8...
  12. AlanL

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

    As a retired software engineer I can’t help but agree. There is a lot of if we can imagine it we can do it in software. And much of the time we can. But also a deficiency of engineering discipline that real engineers have. 😂
  13. AlanL

    Top Five Accessories For The New Scout

    We are all different. We have had sunroofs in our last three cars and opened each just once to try it. Kind of a backwards California and southwest thing, we don’t like the sun beating down on us. Plus the extra opportunity for glare. We will be glad to get a steel roof.
  14. AlanL

    Top Five Accessories For The New Scout

    Not likely, the VWG/Rivian joint venture is about deep electrical architecture, nothing above that. And the electrical part is down at the hidden motor and battery management level. Everything up at the UI level is pure Scout.
  15. AlanL

    solid state battery option

    To use a new battery technology, physical size, etc. in 2028 they would need to start testing and qualifying them sometime in 2026. A huge distraction from initial deliveries. Not to mention production ready batteries would need to be available then. You don’t just take a vendor’s word on the...
  16. AlanL

    solid state battery option

    Yes in the Motor Trend interview. BEV NMC chemistry 120 to 130 ish kWh, Harvester LFP chemistry 60 to 70 ish kWH.
  17. AlanL

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

    Yes, nothing official as in final specs, but I've seen 15 gallon somewhere from an SM person. Can't recall where right now.
  18. AlanL

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

    On a slightly related tangent, how do folks feel about the hemp wood interior trim? I like it a lot. I think Scott Keogh said in the Jay Leno interview while they were sitting in the Traveler that “the truck has hemp wood”. I sure hope they make hemp wood an option for the Traveler!
  19. AlanL

    Special/First Edition Scouts

    Don’t get me started on fake hood scoops. They are enormously insulting to the customer.
  20. AlanL

    Switching Harvester to All EV Model?

    Yes about Tesla chargers. Are they rolling out units that can do 350 kW but not at 800V? I have not thought about the voltage aspect, dumbly thinking a 350 kW charger would be new enough to do anything up to the 800V range. And I did not mean to imply that 800V will always charge twice as fast...
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