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  1. AlanL

    Driver assistance features while towing

    Luckily we are decently under 5000.
  2. AlanL

    Driver assistance features while towing

    My recollection of the Jay Leno interview is that the BEV Terra is about 10,000, the BEV Traveler is about 7000, and the unspecified Harvester is about 5000. A lot of angst over the Harvester number. My guess is Scott misspoke slightly, that 5000-ish is the Traveler Harvester and the Terra...
  3. AlanL

    What is More Important? - EV Charge Time or EV Range

    The generator output does not affect towing capacity, as long as the system is maintaining a sufficient SOC you are driving off the battery in essence. The job for Scout is to make the generator big enough to maintain the battery over a typical drive at reasonable speeds. Which is smaller than...
  4. AlanL

    What is More Important? - EV Charge Time or EV Range

    Driving the BEV for 350 miles then charging or the Harvester for 500 then charging and buying gas is not the smart way to road trip either one, assuming the goal is to minimize total time. Smart BEV road trippers recharge within the fast part of the curve, say about in the 25-75% range. Even...
  5. AlanL

    What is More Important? - EV Charge Time or EV Range

    Absolutely charge time intolerance, why we are getting a Traveler Harvester. About 80% of our miles are towing a small travel trailer. We change drivers every 100 to 150 miles and buy gas every 100 to 175 miles, so stopping at those intervals is not a problem. Waiting for significantly longer...
  6. AlanL

    Hempwood all day

    So far this is the only post that turns up on a search for "hempwood interior". We have a Traveler reserved, boy do I hope we can get that with hempwood.
  7. AlanL

    What are you driving until release?

    By bored I take it you mean with the color? It is an odd blue, looking pretty muted most of the time. I really like the vibrant blue on a lot of RAV4s. But put the Pilot out against some red rocks and it is fantastic. Here is our campsite at sunrise last fall at Valley of Fire SP near Las Vegas.
  8. AlanL

    What are you driving until release?

    Here are Diffused Sky Blue Pearl (top) and Sonic Gray Pearl (bottom) from Honda's build page.
  9. AlanL

    What are you driving until release?

    The Diffused Sky Blue Pearl that is only available on the Trailsport. It is the blue that you almost always see on review cars. By urban pearl gray do you mean what Honda calls Sonic Gray Pearl?
  10. AlanL

    What are you driving until release?

    2023 Honda Pilot Trailsport. Blue of course.
  11. AlanL

    Paddle Shifters For Adjusting Regen

    Paddle shifters are hugely convenient for towing. We tow a 3400 lb travel trailer with a Honda Pilot and manually downshift on grades to control speed. We can go down 6% without touching the brakes, 8% with not much use of the brakes, just tweaking the paddle shifters.
  12. AlanL

    Scout concepts on Jay Leno’s Garage

    @ScoutMotors The discussion following the towing limits mentioned in the Jay Leno video has me thinking more generally about towing with the Traveler Harvester that we have reserved. Especially about regenerative braking and UI to help us manage it. We do over 10,000 towing miles a year with a...
  13. AlanL

    Scout concepts on Jay Leno’s Garage

    And depending on what you expect for gas and go. The battery needs some charge to provide max power for acceleration and climbing. But you can drive around town or back and forth across Kansas forever just buying gas as needed. The generator wlll maintain the battery.
  14. AlanL

    Scout concepts on Jay Leno’s Garage

    I should have said GPE is linear with both mass and distance. Twice the weight over the same height takes twice the energy, same weight over twice the height takes twice the energy.
  15. AlanL

    Scout concepts on Jay Leno’s Garage

    Yes, aerodynamic drag goes up with the square of the speed, it is the bigger factor on flat ground. Gravity potential energy is linear with elevation change so weight matters when climbing hills.
  16. AlanL

    Scout should publish info about EREV driving modes

    I thought the whining was gear noise from the diffs.
  17. AlanL

    Scout concepts on Jay Leno’s Garage

    Great if folks cancel, moves the rest of us up in line!
  18. AlanL

    Scout concepts on Jay Leno’s Garage

    Yes, what I’ve been expecting and Scott seemed to imply is that the generator will run as needed to keep the battery with a reasonable amount of charge.
  19. AlanL

    Scout concepts on Jay Leno’s Garage

    I’m sure the engineers have good reason but it is a bit disappointing to learn the Traveler Harvester tow limit is 5000 instead of 6000. Hopefully it will still be built as a serious work vehicle, capable of regularly towing close to 5000 for long distances. And that the tow mode software will...
  20. AlanL

    Driver assistance features while towing

    We plan to buy a Traveler Harvester, 80% of the miles we put on it will be towing a travel trailer. I hope at that least adaptive cruise control and lane centering will be supported in tow mode. They relieve a lot of stress. The separation distances with adaptive cruise control should increase...
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